Hy-vee Peaches & Cream Instant Oatmeal, Peaches & Cream
Hy-Vee, Inc. · Cereal · barcode 00075450084702
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cereal show what's typical. See levels
- Others2 other cereal products have lab results. Compare them
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-04-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Titanium dioxide (E171)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
- EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
Typical for cereal
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 17.3 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 720 g (25 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.4 kg (7.5 lb).One serving (1 packet, 35 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 49.5 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cereal, corn flakes: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.47, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.5, highest 4.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cereal, oat ring: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.6, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cereal, shredded wheat, frosted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, corn flakes: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 1.27, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 21.7, highest 39 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, oat ring: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 20, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, shredded wheat, frosted: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 39.7, highest 57 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, corn flakes: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 2.37, highest 4.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, oat ring: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, shredded wheat, frosted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, corn flakes: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 170, highest 210 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, oat ring: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 29, highest 35 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, shredded wheat, frosted: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.1, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Inorganic arsenic in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 93.1, highest 103 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Corn flakes cereal: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.2, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Crisped rice cereal: found in 4 of 20 samples, average 0.45, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Oat ring cereal: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 4.9, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Inorganic arsenic, Perchlorate. FDA measured them in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
WHOLE GRAIN ROLLED OATS, SUGAR, CREAMING AGENT (CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, COCONUT OIL, SODIUM CASEINATE, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, TURMERIC AND ANNATTO EXTRACTS FOR COLOR, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), FLAVORED FRUIT PIECES (DEHYDRATED APPLES [TREATED WITH SODIUM SULFITE TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION], ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, ANNATTO COLOR), SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, GUAR GUM, VITAMINS AND MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE (A SOURCE OF CALCIUM), FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE (A SOURCE OF IRON), NIACINAMIDE++, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE++, RIBOFLAVIN++, THIAMIN MONONITRATE++, FOLIC ACID++, VITAMIN D.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-04-01. Labels change; check the package.