Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000179714 · Betty Crocker · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix by Betty Crocker scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 45 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 45-component record, beginning with Sugar, Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 45 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
00179714 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix label screening desk
12 of 45 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Source sheet 00179714 · 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: Lucky Charms Instant Oatmeal · Nearest score peer is Lucky Charms Instant Oatmeal at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix scores 40.9 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 90.9/100), 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 Cooking helpers products
Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix lists 45 ingredients on its label
45 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 1,898 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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- 36 products (2%)
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- 95 products (5%)
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- 146 products (8%)
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- 252 products (13%)
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- 178 products (9%)
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- 121 products (6%)
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- 148 products (8%)
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- 124 products (7%)
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- 84 products (4%)
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- 58 products (3%)
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- 13 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 135 products (7%)
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 1,898 Cooking helpers 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 45 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), chocolaty topping (sugar, corn syrup, water, chocolate liquor, high fructose corn syrup, cocoa processed with alkali, artificial color, agar-agar, potassium sorbate [preservative], citric acid, acetylated monoglycerides, modified corn starch, sodium phosphate, artificial flavor, locust bean gum, nonfat milk), palm oil, reese's peanut butter (peanuts, sugar, monoglycerides, peanut oil, salt, molasses, corn starch), peanut flour, cocoa processed with alkali, nonfat milk, hershey's cocoa, whole wheat flour, salt, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, corn syrup, natural and artificial flavor, brown sugar, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, malted barley and corn syrup, color (yellows 5 & 6, red 40, blue 1).
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix
Neighbours outside Betty Crocker near Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Betty Crocker; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 45 on 0016000179714).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (45 on 0016000179714).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 1 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 45-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 1. Open Blue 1
- Compare Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix's 2 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 0016000179714: 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.