Concern

Original Nutritional Shake

Name: Original Nutritional Shake - Safety Analysis
Creator: PlainFoodSafe
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

by H-E-B

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041220490424 · H-E-B · Nutrition-shake. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Compiled by PlainFoodSafe · July 31, 2026

Barcode 0041220490424 · Serving size 237g

The verdict

Original Nutritional Shake by H-E-B scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 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 53-component record, beginning with Water, Maltodextrin, Protein Blend. 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.

65/100
Concern safety score: 3
Few flagged · of 53 analyzed: Group 4
Ultra-processed: C
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

50/100

Grade C-

Ingredient Safety

65/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

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.

20490424 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Original Nutritional Shake label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 65/100 FLAG-FEW 3 flagged LEN-DENSE 53 ing. REG-PART 43% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-SHORT Len top 2% LEAD-FLAG Acesulfame Potassium PHOTO-FINISH Cola Drink · ±0 BOOK-OFF …490424 · July 2026

23 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 20490424 · 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: Cola Drink · Nearest score peer is Cola Drink 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

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.

Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Original Nutritional Shake (65/100 on 53 parsed ingredients).

Chart values as text

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

Original Nutritional Shake: 65/100
Cola Drink: 65/100
Maple sausage links, maple: 65/100
Ginger Ale: 65/100
Non-Dairy Coffee Creamer: 65/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Original Nutritional Shake lists 53 ingredients on its label

53 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 359,392 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

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 53 (98th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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.