Mints
by Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0009800056446 · Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated · Null. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mints by Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 17-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Dextrin, Gum Arabic. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 17 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0009800056446
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
3/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
00056446 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mints label screening desk
12 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00056446 · 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: Tic tac, flavored mints, fruit adventure · Nearest score peer is Tic tac, flavored mints, fruit adventure 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,202 products we've scored in the Null category, the average safety score is 95.1/100. Mints scores 95.1 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 95.1/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Null products
Mints lists 17 ingredients on its label
17 67th percentile a longer ingredient list than 67% of the 1,052 products we track
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
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- 33 products (3%)
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- 56 products (5%)
- 4–6
- 51 products (5%)
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- 73 products (7%)
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- 112 products (11%)
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- 95 products (9%)
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- 132 products (13%)
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- 191 products (18%)
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- 119 products (11%)
- 20–22
- 47 products (4%)
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- 12 products (1%)
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- 4 products (0%)
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- 38–40
- 2 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 23 products (2%)
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 1,052 Null 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 17 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
FRUIT ADVENTURE: SUGAR, DEXTRIN, GUM ARABIC, TARTARIC ACID, RICE STARCH, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, MALIC ACID, MAGNESIUM STEARATE, CITRIC ACID, DRIED ACEROLA EXTRACT, DRIED GREEN APPLE, CARNAUBA WAX, ASCORBIC ACID, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, RED 40, BLUE 1
Other products containing Dried Green Apple
Dried Green Apple is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 39 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Mints
Neighbours outside Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated in the same lower screening band as Mints (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ferrero U.S.A. Incorporated; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 17 on 0009800056446).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (17 on 0009800056446).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mints's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 17-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Mints's 4 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 0009800056446: 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.