Caution

Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn

by Spartan

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0001121308892 · Spartan · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0001121308892 · Serving size 0.75 cup (30 g)

The verdict

Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn by Spartan scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 35 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 35-component record, beginning with Dark Chocolate Flavored Confectioners' Coating, Sugar, Vegetable Oils. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 35 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

50/100

Grade C-

Ingredient Safety

85/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

21308892 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 35 ing. REG-SPARSE 23% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 14% LEAD-FLAG Titanium Dioxide PHOTO-FINISH Turtle Chips Snack · ±0 BOOK-OFF …308892 · July 2026

8 of 35 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 21308892 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION · Nearest score peer is Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Premium Chocolate Delight…85/1002. Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Turtle Chips Snack Seawee…85/1003. Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime Flavor: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime…85/1004. bleu Marine boy: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. bleu Marine boy85/1005. Ham Salad: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ham Salad85/100
High-band neighbours for Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn (85/100) outside Spartan.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn
85/100
Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION
85/100
Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime Flavor
85/100
bleu Marine boy
85/100
Ham Salad
85/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn scores 1.1 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn lists 35 ingredients on its label

35 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 35 (86th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 81,477 Snacks products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 85/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 35 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Dark Chocolate Flavored Confectioners' Coating
2
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Vegetable Oils
4
Palm Kernel And Partially Hydrogenated Palm
5
Organic Cocoa
6
Skim Milk
7
Vanilla
8
Natural And Artificial Flavors
9
Sorbitan Tristearate And Soy Lecithin
10
Emulsifiers
11
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
12
Caramel Popcorn
13
Brown Sugar
14
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
15
Popcorn
16
Water
17
Coconut Oil
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Listed
18
Coconut Oil
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Listed
19
Beta-carotene
ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
Safe GRAS
20
Butter
21
Cream Salt
22
Natural Flavor
23
Baking Soda
24
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
25
Artificial Butter Flavor
26
Fd&c Yellow 5 Lake
27
White Confectioners' Coating
28
Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil
29
Nonfat Milk Powder
30
Soy Lecithin
31
Emulsifier
32
Monoglycerides
33
Artificial Color
34
Titanium Dioxide
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TRACER
Avoid Prior Sanctioned
35
Artificial Flavor

Full Ingredient List

Dark chocolate flavored confectioners' coating (sugar, vegetable oils [palm kernel and partially hydrogenated palm], cocoa, skim milk, cocoa [processed with alkali], vanilla, natural and artificial flavors, sorbitan tristearate and soy lecithin [emulsifiers], salt), caramel popcorn (brown sugar, corn syrup, popcorn, sugar, water, coconut oil [pure coconut oil, beta-carotene], butter [cream salt], contains less than 2% of natural flavor, salt, baking soda [sodium bicarbonate], artificial butter flavor, fd&c yellow 5 lake [e102]), white confectioners' coating (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, nonfat milk powder, soy lecithin [emulsifier], monoglycerides, artificial color [titanium dioxide], artificial flavor).

Other products containing Dark Chocolate Flavored Confectioners' Coating

Dark Chocolate Flavored Confectioners' Coating is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Confectioneries

High-score cross-brand comparables for Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn

Neighbours outside Spartan with screening scores in the same high band as Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Spartan; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 35-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
  • Compare Premium Chocolate Delight Caramel Corn's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0001121308892: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.