Milo Chocolate Malt
by Nestle
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028000918514 · Nestle · Cocoa and its products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Milo Chocolate Malt by Nestle scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Malted Barley And Tapioca Starch Extract, Sugar, Cocoa Processed With Alkali. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 26 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0028000918514
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
00918514 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Milo Chocolate Malt label screening desk
8 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Maltose). Source sheet 00918514 · 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: Kellogg'S Cereal Breakfast Bar Chocolate 32.16Oz · Nearest score peer is Kellogg'S Cereal Breakfast Bar Chocolate 32.16Oz at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out 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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 7,882 products we've scored in the Cocoa and its products category, the average safety score is 93.3/100. Milo Chocolate Malt scores 6.7 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.3/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Milo Chocolate Malt lists 26 ingredients on its label
26 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% 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%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 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%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 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
Full Ingredient List
MALTED BARLEY AND TAPIOCA STARCH EXTRACT, SUGAR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, NONFAT MILK SOLIDS, NONFAT MILK, MILKFAT, WHEY PO AND LESS THAN 2% OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTOSE, MALTOSE, SALT, HONEY, SOY LECITHIN, ASCORBIC ACID, FERRIC PYROPHOSPHATE (IRON), NIACINAMIDE PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, CHOLECALCIFEROL (VITAMIN D3), CYANOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN B12), POTASSIUM IODATE. CONTAINS: MILK, SOY.
Other products containing Niacinamide Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
Niacinamide Pyridoxine Hydrochloride is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Milo Chocolate Malt
Neighbours outside Nestle with screening scores in the same high band as Milo Chocolate Malt (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Nestle; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (26 on 0028000918514).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Milo Chocolate Malt has a longer ingredient list than 81% of its published comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Maltose first, then work through the remaining 26 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0028000918514: 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.