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Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple

by Food Club

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0036800285927 · Food Club · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0036800285927 · Serving size 1 cup (28 g)

The verdict

Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple by Food Club scores 35/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 33-component record, beginning with Sugar, Whole Grain Corn 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.

35/100
Avoid safety score
3
Few flagged · of 33 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
D
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

35/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

D

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.

00285927 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 35/100 FLAG-FEW 3 flagged LEN-DENSE 33 ing. REG-PART 45% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-SHORT Len top 7% LEAD-FLAG BHT PHOTO-FINISH Creamy Frosting · ±0 BOOK-OFF …285927 · July 2026

15 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 00285927 · 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: Creamy Frosting · Nearest score peer is Creamy Frosting 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.

This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.

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

1. Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple: 35/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Food club, apple loons, s…35/1002. Creamy Frosting: 35/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Creamy Frosting35/1003. Gelatin Dessert: 35/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Gelatin Dessert35/1004. Instant Pudding & Pie Filling: 35/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Instant Pudding & Pie Fil…35/1005. Laura lynn, cheese bits: 35/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Laura lynn, cheese bits35/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple (35/100 on 33 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple
35/100
Creamy Frosting
35/100
Gelatin Dessert
35/100
Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
35/100
Laura lynn, cheese bits
35/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple scores 62.7 points below that category average (35/100 vs. 97.7/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products

Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple lists 33 ingredients on its label

33 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

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

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 33 (93rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages 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 35/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 33 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, whole grain corn flour, wheat flour, whole grain oat flour, oat fiber, soluble corn fiber, salt, dicalcium phosphate, corn flour, dried apples, apple juice concentrate, cinnamon, yellow 6, baking soda, bht (a preservative), turmeric color, red 40, blue 1. vitamins and minerals: calcium carbonate, sodium ascorbate, niacinamide, zinc oxide, reduced iron, vitamin a palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), riboflavin (vitamin b2), thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), folic acid, vitamin d, vitamin b12.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Cereals and potatoes Cereals and their products

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple

Neighbours outside Food Club in the same lower screening band as Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple (35/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Food Club; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 33-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
  • Compare Food club, apple loons, sweetened multi-grain cereal, apple, apple's 3 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 0036800285927: 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.