Count chocula mini treats
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000182073 · General Mills. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Count chocula mini treats by General Mills scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 66 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 66-component record, beginning with Cereal, Whole Grain Com, Sugar. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 66 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0016000182073
- 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
70/100
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.
00182073 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Count chocula mini treats label screening desk
15 of 66 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 00182073 · 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: Fruit by the Foot Starburst Flavored · Nearest score peer is Fruit by the Foot Starburst Flavored 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.
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.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Count chocula mini treats lists 66 ingredients on its label
66 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
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- 30,981 products (9%)
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- 31,618 products (9%)
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- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
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- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
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- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
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- 6,753 products (2%)
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- 5,918 products (2%)
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- 5,282 products (1%)
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- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 66 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
cereal (whole grain com, sugar, com meal, com syrup, cocoa processed with akal sugar.com candla oil, caramel color, sat, fructose, refiner's sing, baking soda, natural favor. vitamins and minerals: tricalcium phosphate, calcium caborate, temin c sodium ascorbate, iron and zinc (mineral nutrients), a b vitamin (niacinamide, vitamin b pynobune hydrochlonde, vitamin b (thiamin mononitrate), vitamin a palmitate), vitamin s, (inboflavin), a b vitamin (folic acid), vitamin b, vitamin d.), chocolate flavored coating sugar, fractionated palm kernel oil, nontat milk, cocoa processed with alkali, soy lecithin, natural plavor), com syrup, chocolate flavored chips (sugar, palm kemel andior paima, a processed with alkali, nonfat milk, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), chocolate flavored crisp rice ce four, cocoa processed with alkali, sugar, malt extract, salt, caramel color, 9-t to retain freshness), warshmallow bits (sugar, com syrup, modified com starch, gelatin, natural and artificial favor, sodium hexametaphosphate, blue 1), fructose, high fructose com syrup, sugar, canola oil, whole wheat flour, calcium carbonate, brown rice flour. contains 2% or less of: vegetable glycerin, maltodextrin, cocoa processed with alkali, sorbitol, whole cat flour, yellow com flour, caramel color, salt, gelatin, modified wheat starch, natural and artificial favor iron 0.7mg 4% contains milk, soy, and wheat ingredients. dist, by general mills sales, inc., minneapolis, mn 55440 usa contains bioengineered food ingredients la more at ask generalmils.com
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Count chocula mini treats
Neighbours outside General Mills near Count chocula mini treats's mid-band score (70/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within General Mills; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 66 on 0016000182073).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (66 on 0016000182073).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Count chocula mini treats's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 66-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Count chocula mini treats'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 0016000182073: 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.