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How many calories are in cooked oat breakfast cereal?

38kcal

in a 40 g bowl

95 kcal per 100 g.

Source: UK CoFID 2021, record 11-793, 10 analysed samples. Checked 5 October 2026.

1 gFat

2 gProtein

0.8 gFibre

18 %Daily vitamin B12

Breakfast cereal, oat, instant, plain, fortified, cooked, made up with semi-skimmed milk

What’s in a 40 g bowl

More than half of a bowl is water, which is why the calories stay low. What is left is mostly carbohydrate.

  • 1 gFat
  • 2 gProtein
  • 5.7 gCarbohydrate
  • 0.8 gFibre
  • 31 gWater

Below average for breakfast cereals

Oat breakfast cereal is 95 kcal per 100 g. The 24 breakfast cereals in this database average 304.

Oat breakfast cereal95
Breakfast cereals average304

Low in sugar, almost no salt

Low sugars and very low salt by UK labelling rules, per 100 g.

Sugars, per bowl1.7 g
Salt, per bowl0.04 g

Vitamins and minerals in oat breakfast cereal

Three of the 21 reach the “high in” level, led by vitamin B12.

18 %

Vitamin B12

0.00044 mg in a 40 g bowl

13th of 22 breakfast cereals

Vitamin B12 contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism, to the normal function of the immune system and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.

Calcium129 mg16 %
Manganese0.24 mg12 %
Vitamin B60.14 mg9.7 %
Phosphorus58 mg8.3 %

A source of

Only a trace

  • Vitamin C
  • Copper
Show all 21 with amounts
Vitamin B120.00044 mg, 18 %
Calcium129 mg, 16 %
Manganese0.24 mg, 12 %
Vitamin B60.14 mg, 9.7 %
Niacin (vitamin B3)1.4 mg, 8.5 %
Phosphorus58 mg, 8.3 %
Iodine0.012 mg, 8 %
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.11 mg, 7.7 %
Folate0.0144 mg, 7.2 %
Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.07 mg, 6.5 %
Iron0.8 mg, 5.7 %
Vitamin D0.00028 mg, 5.6 %
Chloride43.2 mg, 5.4 %
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.28 mg, 4.6 %
Potassium79.6 mg, 4 %
Biotin0.0016 mg, 3.2 %
Magnesium11.2 mg, 3 %
Zinc0.28 mg, 2.8 %
Selenium0.0012 mg, 2.2 %
Vitamin A0.0068 mg, 0.9 %
Vitamin E0.06 mg, <1 %

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”. A trace is shown as “trace” and never counts.

What oat breakfast cereal doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin C or copper, and only 1.2 % of the vitamin E reference intake per 100 g.

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Oat breakfast cereal against other breakfast cereals

Per 100 g, breakfast cereal (bran flakes, fortified) has the most vitamin B12 in this comparison, followed by breakfast cereal (instant hot oat, plain, raw, fortified).

Breakfast cereal, bran flakes, fortified+0.0012 mg
Breakfast cereal, instant hot oat, plain, raw, fortified+0.001 mg
Breakfast cereal, bran type cereal, fortified+0.0006 mg
Breakfast cereal, wheat and multigrain, chocolate flavoured, fortified+0.0003 mg
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Porridge−0.0007 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against oat breakfast cereal.

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Questions about oat breakfast cereal

Four questions chosen by the facts above, so every food answers differently.

How many calories are in a portion of oat breakfast cereal?
A typical portion (40 g, a bowl before milk) gives 38 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 95 kcal.
Is oat breakfast cereal high in vitamin B12?
Yes. Breakfast cereal, oat, instant, plain, fortified, cooked, made up with semi-skimmed milk has 0.0011 mg vitamin B12 per 100 g, 44 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.
Which vitamins and minerals does oat breakfast cereal have most of?
By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin B12 (0.0011 mg, 44 %), calcium (323 mg, 40 %) and manganese (0.61 mg, 31 %) per 100 g.
Is oat breakfast cereal a good source of protein?
Breakfast cereal, oat, instant, plain, fortified, cooked, made up with semi-skimmed milk has 4.9 g protein per 100 g, 20 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “source of protein”.
How these numbers were made
Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 11-793, Breakfast cereal, oat, instant, plain, fortified, cooked, made up with semi-skimmed milk, 10 analysed samples, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: LGC, Nutrient survey of breakfast cereals, 2004. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a bowl is 40 g, a bowl before milk, the usual UK portion for breakfast cereals. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 24 breakfast cereals kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample. Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nutrition

Breakfast cereal, oat, instant, plain, fortified, cooked, made up with semi-skimmed milk

Calories38 kcal
Fat
1 g
of which saturates
0.43 g
Carbohydrate
5.7 g
of which sugars
1.7 g
of which starch
4 g
Fibre
0.8 g
Protein
2 g
Salt
0.04 g

Vitamins and minerals

Vitamin B12
0.00044 mg
Calcium
129 mg
Manganese
0.24 mg
Vitamin B6
0.14 mg
Niacin (vitamin B3)
1.4 mg
Phosphorus
58 mg

161 kJ per bowl. Values for the edible portion. Source: UK CoFID 2021.

All 21 vitamins and minerals