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Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal

Life Original Breakfast Cereal

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Ingredients · 18

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Is Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal healthy?

Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid 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.

What is in Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal?

Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal lists 18 ingredients, starting with Whole Grain Oat Flour, Corn Flour, Sugar, Whole Wheat Flour and Rice Flour. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal?

Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal compare to other cereal?

At 5/100 Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal scores worse than most cereal we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cereal is Lovebird Grain Free Honey Breakfast Cereal at 100/100.

Is Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal organic?

Quaker Life Original Breakfast Cereal is not certified organic in our data.

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