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Ready Brek Original 500 g 500 g box
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Smooth instant oat porridge from Weetabix Limited, sold in the United Kingdom in a 500 g box and fortified with calcium, iron and seven vitamins.
Size & format
500 g box, English label[1]
United Kingdom · English · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2016-05-02
- Net content
- 500 g
- Pack
- box
Read from the back-panel photograph uploaded to Open Food Facts on 2 May 2016. The panel declares sodium with GDA percentages rather than salt with reference intakes, the scheme used before the nutrition declaration of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 became mandatory on 13 December 2016; nothing on the box dates it, so valid_from and valid_until are left empty.
Nutrition
Nutrition panel
Per 30 gas sold[1]
| Nutrient | Amount per 30 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 470 kJ / 112 kcal (5.6% DV) |
| Fat | 2.6 g (3.7% DV) |
| of which saturates | 0.4 g (1.8% DV) |
| Carbohydrate | 17.4 g |
| of which sugars | 0.3 g (0.3% DV) |
| Fibre | 2.4 g |
| Protein | 3.5 g |
| Sodium | <100 mgnormalized |
| Calcium | 400.8 mg (50% DV) |
| Iron | 3.6 mg (26% DV) |
| Vitamin D | 1.3 µg (26% DV) |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.6 µg (25% DV) |
| Folate | 51 µg (26% DV) |
Original values, qualifications & sources
Per 30 g serving
- Energy · kJ
- 470 kJ[1]Printed: 470kJknown · exact · printed
- Energy · kcal
- 112 kcal (5.6% DV)[1]Printed: 112kcalknown · exact · printed
- Fat · g
- 2.6 g (3.7% DV)[1]Printed: 2.6gknown · exact · printed
- of which saturates · g
- 0.4 g (1.8% DV)[1]Printed: 0.4gknown · exact · printed
- Carbohydrate · g
- 17.4 g[1]Printed: 17.4gknown · exact · printed
- of which sugars · g
- 0.3 g (0.3% DV)[1]Printed: 0.3gknown · exact · printed
- Fibre · g
- 2.4 g[1]Printed: 2.4gknown · exact · printed
- Protein · g
- 3.5 g[1]Printed: 3.5gknown · exact · printed
- Sodium · mg
- <100 mg[1]Printed: <0.10gknown · less_than · normalized
Printed as "<0.10g" per 30 g serving; recorded in milligrams.
- Calcium · mg
- 400.8 mg (50% DV)[1]Printed: 400.8mgknown · exact · printed
- Iron · mg
- 3.6 mg (26% DV)[1]Printed: 3.6mgknown · exact · printed
- Vitamin D · µg
- 1.3 µg (26% DV)[1]Printed: 1.3µgknown · exact · printed
- Vitamin B12 · µg
- 0.6 µg (25% DV)[1]Printed: 0.6µgknown · exact · printed
- Folate · µg
- 51 µg (26% DV)[1]Printed: 51.0µgknown · exact · printed
Printed as Folic Acid.
The %GDA and %RDA columns belong to this serving column; the footnote states that a 30 g serving provides the percentages shown and that the pack holds approximately sixteen 30 g servings.
Nutrition panel
Per 100 gas sold[1]
| Nutrient | Amount per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1568 kJ / 373 kcal |
| Fat | 8.7 g |
| of which saturates | 1.2 g |
| Carbohydrate | 57.9 g |
| of which sugars | 1 g |
| Fibre | 7.9 g |
| Protein | 11.7 g |
| Sodium | <100 mgnormalized |
| Calcium | 1336 mg |
| Iron | 11.9 mg |
| Vitamin D | 4.3 µg |
| Vitamin B12 | 2.1 µg |
| Folate | 170 µg |
Original values, qualifications & sources
Per 100 g
- Energy · kJ
- 1568 kJ[1]Printed: 1568kJknown · exact · printed
- Energy · kcal
- 373 kcal[1]Printed: 373kcalknown · exact · printed
- Fat · g
- 8.7 g[1]Printed: 8.7gknown · exact · printed
- of which saturates · g
- 1.2 g[1]Printed: 1.2gknown · exact · printed
- Carbohydrate · g
- 57.9 g[1]Printed: 57.9gknown · exact · printed
- of which sugars · g
- 1 g[1]Printed: 1.0gknown · exact · printed
- Fibre · g
- 7.9 g[1]Printed: 7.9gknown · exact · printed
- Protein · g
- 11.7 g[1]Printed: 11.7gknown · exact · printed
- Sodium · mg
- <100 mg[1]Printed: <0.10gknown · less_than · normalized
Printed as "<0.10g" per 100 g; recorded in milligrams.
- Calcium · mg
- 1336 mg[1]Printed: 1336.0mgknown · exact · printed
- Iron · mg
- 11.9 mg[1]Printed: 11.9mgknown · exact · printed
- Vitamin D · µg
- 4.3 µg[1]Printed: 4.3µgknown · exact · printed
- Vitamin B12 · µg
- 2.1 µg[1]Printed: 2.1µgknown · exact · printed
- Folate · µg
- 170 µg[1]Printed: 170.0µgknown · exact · printed
Printed as Folic Acid.
The footnote adds that 100 g provides 85 % of the RDA of the vitamins and iron listed and 167 % of the calcium.
Ingredients
Declared ingredients
- Rolled oats (60%),
- Oat flour (38%),
- Calcium,
- Niacin,
- Iron,
- Riboflavin,
- Vitamin B6,
- Thiamin,
- Folic acid,
- Vitamin D,
- Vitamin B12
Original statement & ingredient evidence
Wholegrain Rolled Oats (60%), Wholegrain Oat Flour (38%), Calcium, Niacin, Iron, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B6, Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.
Declared ingredients
- Rolled oats — Wholegrain Rolled Oats · 60% [1]GBknown
- Oat flour — Wholegrain Oat Flour · 38% [1]GBknown
- Calcium — Calcium · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Niacin — Niacin · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Iron — Iron · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Riboflavin — Riboflavin (B2) · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Vitamin B6 — Vitamin B6 · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Thiamin — Thiamin (B1) · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Folic acid — Folic Acid · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Vitamin D — Vitamin D · fortificant [1]GBknown
- Vitamin B12 — Vitamin B12 · fortificant [1]GBknown
Statements on the label
- Suitable for vegetarians[1]label · Green V mark printed beside the Allergy Advice box.
- Made only with oats, vitamins, minerals[2]label · Printed across the foot of the front panel with three ticks.
- Original Oat Cereal Fortified with Vitamins, Iron & Calcium[1]label · The legal denomination, printed above the ingredient and nutrition panels with "500g ℮".
Other observations & source differences (3)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- 500 g box, English label supported · selected
Read from the back-panel photograph uploaded to Open Food Facts on 2 May 2016. The panel declares sodium with GDA percentages rather than salt with reference intakes, the scheme used before the nutrition declaration of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 became mandatory on 13 December 2016; nothing on the box dates it, so valid_from and valid_until are left empty.
- Weetabix Food Company page, Ready Brek Original unconfirmed · Compare evidence
The maker's current Ready Brek Original page. Its ingredient statement matches the 2016 box word for word apart from the page's "Rivoflavin" misprint, but its nutrition figures differ, and the page names neither a net content nor a barcode: it may describe the current pack rather than this 500 g article. Normalised ingredient rows are recorded once, against pack-2016.
- Evidence awaiting context review unconfirmed · Compare evidence
Product facts
Explore the family ↗- Barcode
- 5010029013023 check digit OK
- Also named
- Ready Brek Original 500 g (en)
- Brand
- Weetabix
- Family
- Ready Brek
- Category
- Food/Beverage, Cereal/Grain/Pulse Products, Processed Cereal Products, Cereal Products - Not Ready to Eat (Shelf Stable)
- Net content
- 500 g
- Pack
- box
- Sold in
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom[1]
- Last observed on sale
- 2016-05-02
- Last sale evidence
- Last dated evidence for this article is the pack photographed for Open Food Facts on 2 May 2016; no source dates a withdrawal, so status is left unset.
- Made in
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- GS1 prefix
- 501 · United Kingdom
About this product
Ready Brek Original is the smooth instant porridge Weetabix Limited mills from wholegrain oats at Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire; this 500 g box was sold in the United Kingdom and its back panel reads "Made in England by Weetabix Limited".[1] The front calls it "super smooth porridge" made only with oats, vitamins and minerals,[2] and the legal denomination above the panels is "Original Oat Cereal Fortified with Vitamins, Iron & Calcium".[1] The list is wholegrain rolled oats at 60 % and wholegrain oat flour at 38 %, with calcium, iron and seven added vitamins; a 30 g serving carries 400.8 mg of calcium, half an adult's recommended intake.[1] The brand was created by J. Lyons and Co., launched in 1957 and bought by Weetabix in June 1990.[3]
More about this product
The old Barcodepedia recorded this barcode as a 500 g box in September 2007, under the misspelling "Ready Break Original".[4] The panel photographed for Open Food Facts in 2016 still declares sodium with Guideline Daily Amounts, the scheme used before the nutrition declaration of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 became mandatory on 13 December 2016,[5] and the maker's current page prints slightly different figures for the same recipe, so the two labels are kept as separate observations.[6] Weetabix Limited, registered at Weetabix Mills since 13 August 1932,[7] has been held through Westminster Acquisition Limited since 2018[8] and belongs to Post Holdings, Inc., which completed its purchase on 3 July 2017.[9]
Where it's sold
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Open Food Facts[1] printed
- Listing observed
- Made in
- United Kingdom
The back panel prints the United Kingdom consumer services address (Weetabix Limited, Burton Latimer, Kettering, Northants., NN15 5JR, England), the www.weetabix.co.uk address and "Made in England by Weetabix Limited"; the box is English-only with UK GDA labelling.
A listing is evidence that this barcode is sold there, on that date; a price is what that listing showed, not a recommended price.
Other names for this product
Also known as
- Ready brek Original en
- Original Oat Cereal Fortified with Vitamins, Iron & Calcium en
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Sources & research
Evidence reviewed
Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts: back of the 500 g Ready Brek Original box, ingredients, allergy advice and nutrition panel (raw upload 2)
pack · Accessed 2026-09-14
Source & attribution [1] ↗Barcodepedia (2006-2013)
Barcodepedia, capture of 11 September 2007: "Ready Break Original", 500g Box, EAN13 5010029013023
other · Accessed 2026-09-14
Source & attribution [4] ↗Coverage & research gaps (9)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Context: 2 / 3 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 2 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- 500 g box, English label: nutrient evidence: 28 / 28 · Recorded nutrient rows linked to a source; not the number of nutrients that ought to exist
- Weetabix Food Company page, Ready Brek Original: nutrient evidence: 14 / 14 · Recorded nutrient rows linked to a source; not the number of nutrients that ought to exist
- markets · unknown: No retailer listing that prints 5010029013023 could be found, and the maker's current page names no pack size. The last dated evidence for this 500 g box is the Open Food Facts photograph of 2 May 2016; nothing dates a withdrawal, so status is left unset.
- evidence · unknown: The photographed panel declares sodium with GDA percentages, the scheme used before the nutrition declaration of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 applied on 13 December 2016, so the box is older than the photograph; no printed date narrows it.
- nutrition · disputed: The maker's current figures (1575 kJ, 12 g protein, 0.03 g salt per 100 g) differ from the photographed panel (1568 kJ, 11.7 g protein, sodium below 0.10 g per 100 g). The page carries no net content or barcode, so it cannot be tied to this article.
- relationships · unknown: No public register names the licensee of GS1 prefix 5010029. Every one of the 264 Open Food Facts records under it carries a Weetabix-group brand, so the prefix is recorded as inferred on the company stub and the length of the licensed block is unconfirmed.
- schema · schema_gap: The nutrient list has no key for thiamin, riboflavin, niacin or vitamin B6, so four printed rows could not be stored as values. The 2016 box prints, per 30 g serving and per 100 g: Thiamin (B1) 0.3 mg / 0.9 mg (25 % RDA), Riboflavin (B2) 0.4 mg / 1.2 mg (26 %), Niacin 4.1 mg / 13.6 mg (26 %), Vitamin B6 0.4 mg / 1.2 mg (26 %). The maker's current page prints, per 100 g: Thiamin 0.94 mg, Riboflavin 1.2 mg, Niacin 14 mg, Vitamin B6 1.2 mg.
- evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
- schema · schema_gap: Review and assign legacy facts to coherent observations.
- ingredients · not_researched: Ingredient statement or sourced exemption not recorded.
- nutrition · not_researched: Nutrition declaration or exemption not recorded.
All references & source details
References
- ↑ Open Food Facts: back of the 500 g Ready Brek Original box, ingredients, allergy advice and nutrition panel (raw upload 2) Open Food Facts. pack. Published 2016-05-02. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 5010029013023. Back panel. cc-by-sa-3.0. Open Food Facts contributors. Upstream: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5010029013023.
- ↑ Open Food Facts: front of the 500 g Ready Brek Original box (raw upload 1, 2448x3264) Open Food Facts. pack. Published 2016-05-02. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 5010029013023. Front panel. cc-by-sa-3.0. Open Food Facts contributors. Upstream: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5010029013023.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Ready Brek Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-14. cc-by-sa-4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
- ↑ Barcodepedia, capture of 11 September 2007: "Ready Break Original", 500g Box, EAN13 5010029013023 Barcodepedia (2006-2013). other. Published 2007-09-11. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 5010029013023.
- ↑ Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Article 55: applies from 13 December 2014, the nutrition declaration from 13 December 2016 legislation.gov.uk. registry. Accessed 2026-09-14. Article 55. ocl. The National Archives.
- ↑ Weetabix Food Company: Ready Brek Weetabix Limited. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-14. Ready Brek Original.
- ↑ Companies House: WEETABIX LIMITED (00267687), company overview Companies House. registry. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 00267687. ocl. Companies House.
- ↑ Companies House: WEETABIX LIMITED (00267687), persons with significant control Companies House. registry. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 00267687. ocl. Companies House.
- ↑ Post Holdings Completes Acquisition of Weetabix (Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1) Post Holdings, Inc.. publication. Published 2017-07-03. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- ↑ Open Food Facts search: 264 records under GS1 prefix 5010029, all Weetabix-group brands Open Food Facts. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-14. ODbL. Open Food Facts contributors.
Further sources
Additional sources recorded for this entry, including other observations and related pages.
- Open Food Facts: product record 5010029013023 (Weetabix, United Kingdom) Open Food Facts. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 5010029013023. ODbL. Open Food Facts contributors.
- Open Food Facts: Weetabix Cereals Ready Brek Porridge Original (5010029013016) Open Food Facts. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-14. Record: 5010029013016. ODbL. Open Food Facts contributors.
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex II: cereals containing gluten, namely wheat, rye, barley and oats legislation.gov.uk. registry. Accessed 2026-09-14. Annex II, point 1. ocl. The National Archives.
Barcode & identifiers
- GTIN-14
05010029013023- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
5010029013023
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