Instant Hot Cereal

Breakdown

1 ingredient to avoid

Quaker Instant Hot Cereal scores 85/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Quaker Instant Hot Cereal lists 13 ingredients, starting with Whole Grain Rolled Oats, Barley, Brown Sugar, Apples and Fructose. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 85/100 Quaker Instant Hot Cereal sits in our top band, among the better cereal we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cereal is Kavanagh's Organic Jumbo Porridge Oats at 100/100.