Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups
by Snack pack
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0027000419052 · Snack pack · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups by Snack pack scores 15/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 17-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Corn Starch, Nonfat Milk. 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.
- 15/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 17 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
30/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
15/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00419052 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups label screening desk
9 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Maltitol). Source sheet 00419052 · 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: Meijer, light nonfat yogurt, key lime pie · Nearest score peer is Meijer, light nonfat yogurt, key lime pie 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 18,164 products we've scored in the Desserts category, the average safety score is 89.5/100. Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups scores 74.5 points below that category average (15/100 vs. 89.5/100), 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 Desserts products
Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups lists 17 ingredients on its label
17 41st percentile a longer ingredient list than 41% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 11,156 Desserts 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 15/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 17 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
water, modified corn starch, nonfat milk*, palm oil, maltitol, sorbitol, less than 2% of: salt, sodium stearoyl lactylate, carrageenan, milk protein isolate, natural and artificial flavors, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, yellow 5, yellow 6, *adds an insignificant amount of sugars,contains milk
Categories
More from Snack pack
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups
Neighbours outside Snack pack in the same lower screening band as Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups (15/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Snack pack; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 17 on 0027000419052).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (17 on 0027000419052).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Maltitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups'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 Maltitol. Open Maltitol
- Compare Zero Sugar Vanilla Pudding Cups's 5 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 0027000419052: 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.