USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain in 7 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain” appears as a formulation input in 7 finished-food records. Their calories and nutrients describe those complete foods, not the input label by itself. Use the catalog to choose the closest finished food and open its exact FoodData Central citation.

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Exact nutrition reference, complete food catalog and source methodology

This page helps you find complete foods that include Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain in USDA’s nutrition data. Choose the record that most closely matches what you ate; Feast does not turn a collection average into a standalone ingredient estimate.

What the code means

One exact source label across 7 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 8122 and the source description “Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain, dry.” The code is preserved exactly as it appears in the FNDDS input-food rows. It is not a FoodData Central FDC ID, so this page does not invent a standalone ingredient-record URL.

The strongest concentrations of linked records are currently Oatmeal (7). These are category counts within Feast’s selected 3,850-record corpus. They do not estimate how often the ingredient is eaten, how common it is in recipes generally, or its prevalence across every FNDDS release.

Collection-level interpretation

Grounded ways to understand this source label

These summaries describe the linked FNDDS records in this exact corpus. They do not estimate consumer frequency, market share, or the composition of a meal.

Typical listed-weight range

18.3%–18.9%

The middle half of linked records spans 0.6 percentage points from the 25th to the 75th percentile. This is more resistant to a single extreme record than the full minimum-to-maximum range.

Largest linked category

Oatmeal

7 of 7 linked records (100%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 0 other categories.

Most populated share band

15% to under 30%

6 records (86%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 8122 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Beverages, water, tap, drinking

It appears alongside code 8122 in 3 linked records (43%). Co-occurrence describes database structure, not a required recipe.

Where USDA uses this input

Linked records by source-food category

Each record is counted once even if ingredient code 8122 appears on more than one input row inside that formulation. The category grouping describes the complete linked foods, not a culinary rule about the ingredient.

USDA survey-food categories

Source-formulation evidence

How the share of listed input weight changes

Repeated rows for code 8122 inside one food are combined before the percentage is calculated. The denominator is the sum of all positive-weight inputs listed for that USDA formulation.

All linked records, not just the extremes

Where the listed-weight shares fall

Each bar counts complete food records after repeated rows for ingredient code 8122 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
0 of 7
1% to under 5%0 records
0 of 7
5% to under 15%1 record
1 of 7
15% to under 30%6 records
6 of 7
30% to under 60%0 records
0 of 7
60% to 100%0 records
0 of 7

The role changes by food type

Median listed share in the largest USDA categories

Category medians summarize source-formulation shares, not nutrient content or consumption frequency.

Listed-weight share distribution across the largest complete-food categories
Complete-food category	Records	Median	Middle 50%	Observed span
Oatmeal	7	18.3%	18.3%–18.9%	9.7%–18.9%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain, dry” ranges from 9.7% to 18.9% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 18.3%. That variation can help distinguish a food where the input is a small supporting component from a record where it makes up much more of the standardized source formulation.

The spread remains descriptive. It does not show uncertainty around a single recipe, and a high source-weight share does not automatically mean the food supplies more of any particular nutrient. To compare nutrients, use the complete linked records below.

Important nutrition boundary

This collection does not support a verified standalone nutrition answer for “Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain, dry.”

No unique exact food-code match or reviewed sole-source bridge qualifies for a direct consumer answer. Feast therefore does not treat the collection median, minimum, maximum, or an arbitrary similar record as the nutrition of this input.

The table below describes the complete linked foods per 100 grams. Use it to find a closer finished-food record, not to infer what this formulation input supplies on its own.

Compare complete food records

Nutrient span across the linked foods

Every value in this table describes an entire USDA survey-food record per 100 grams. The values are not the nutrient content of ingredient code 8122, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrient	Observed minimum	Middle 50%	Median	Observed maximum	Linked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food	68 kcal	87–112 kcal	94 kcal	129 kcal	7
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	2.2 g	2.3–4 g	3.1 g	5 g	7
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	12.7 g	14.1–16.6 g	15.6 g	17.1 g	7
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	1.3 g	2–4.4 g	3 g	5.4 g	7
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	1.8 g	1.9–1.9 g	1.9 g	2 g	7
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	45 mg	68–90 mg	83 mg	99 mg	7

The minimum and maximum preserve the complete observed span. The median is the middle linked-record value, not a prediction for a meal and not an ingredient-specific nutrient estimate.

Complete linked catalog

All 7 Feast-indexed food records that list code 8122

This is the complete qualifying-corpus catalog, not a hand-picked sample. Search by food name or USDA category, then open a profile for household portions, Feast’s 21-nutrient panel, formulation details, and its exact FDC citation.

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7 records shown

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food record	USDA category	Formulation	Listed input weight	Weight share	Calories	Protein	Sodium	Citation
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added	Oatmeal	3 input rows	28 g	18.3%	129 kcal	4.8 g	90 mg	FDC 2708390 ↗
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, no added fat	Oatmeal	2 input rows	28 g	18.9%	111 kcal	5 g	73 mg	FDC 2708389 ↗
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with non-dairy milk, fat added	Oatmeal	3 input rows	28 g	18.3%	113 kcal	3.1 g	99 mg	FDC 2708392 ↗
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with non-dairy milk, no added fat	Oatmeal	2 input rows	28 g	18.9%	94 kcal	3.2 g	83 mg	FDC 2708391 ↗
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, fat added	Oatmeal	3 input rows	28 g	18.3%	88 kcal	2.2 g	63 mg	FDC 2708388 ↗
Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, no added fat	Oatmeal	2 input rows	28 g	18.9%	68 kcal	2.3 g	45 mg	FDC 2708387 ↗
Oatmeal, reduced sugar	Oatmeal	3 input rows	15 g	9.7%	85 kcal	2.4 g	90 mg	FDC 2708397 ↗

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 7 exact records behind Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain, dry (USDA input 8122). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, no added fat is higher in total sugars per 100 g

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, no added fat reports 4.2 g versus 0.3 g for Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, no added fat: a 4 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

7 listed servings each weigh 240 g

The 7 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 240 g. Their serving totals therefore compare equal weights, even if the household labels differ. Match the preparation and adjust the weight to the amount you eat.

Choose the record before reading the number

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added and Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, no added fat are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Added-fat wording (added fat versus no added fat) the explicit record-description contrast. It does not show that the wording difference caused a nutrient difference. Pick the description that matches the food in front of you rather than averaging away the distinction.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Cereals, oats, instant, fortified, plain, dry (USDA input 8122), each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Oatmeal, instant

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added and Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, no added fat are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Oatmeal

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, no added fat and Oatmeal, reduced sugar are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added vs Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with water, no added fat

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Added-fat wording: added fat versus no added fat; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added vs Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with non-dairy milk, no added fat

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Added-fat wording: added fat versus no added fat; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path 7 context records in this source topic Oatmeal

Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, fat added and Oatmeal, instant, plain, made with milk, no added fat belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Table fat, NFS

USDA input 81100000 appears in 3 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 5–5 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Milk, NFS

USDA input 11100000 appears in 2 of 7 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 120–120 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path

Method and provenance

How this ingredient-centered page was calculated

Feast begins with its pinned 3,850-record USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods reference corpus for FNDDS 2021–2023. Each exact food profile retains its FDC identifier, source-food description, nutrient values, household measures, and positive-weight input-food rows. This page groups those input rows by the exact ingredient code 8122; it does not merge similar-looking ingredient names or infer synonyms.

The distinct-record count deduplicates by FDC food record. When the same code is listed more than once inside one source formulation, its input weights are added before the listed-weight share is calculated. Category counts also count each food once. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile use the sorted one-share-per-food values with linear interpolation between adjacent ranks when a percentile falls between two records.

USDA’s current FNDDS documentation explains that many nutrient profiles are generated with calculation recipes designed to represent multiple variants, and that their input codes are not necessarily the exact ingredients in a retail product or an ingredient declaration. It also documents moisture and nutrient-retention adjustments. Feast therefore treats these rows as transparent source-calculation evidence—not as a reverse-engineered recipe.

The complete-food nutrient table uses each linked record’s available published per-100-gram values so the denominator remains consistent; its middle-50% ranges use the same interpolated percentile method. It is presented for record selection and comparison only. No nutrient value is reassigned to the ingredient, no causal effect is inferred, and no “healthy” score is manufactured from the collection.

How to apply the evidence to a meal

Use the ingredient as a discovery clue. Compare the linked record names, food categories, preparation wording, source formulation, and portion measures. If a close record exists, its complete profile can provide a defensible reference estimate. If the meal differs materially in cooking fat, sauce, ingredient ratios, or portion size, keep looking or use recipe weights, a package label, or an editable photo estimate instead.

These pages are educational source indexes. They do not provide medical advice, personalized nutrient targets, food-safety guidance, or a recipe. If a clinician has given you individualized dietary instructions, follow that guidance and use the most specific current source available for the food you actually consumed.