Sugar free instant
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041303020128 · Essential Everyday · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sugar free instant by Essential Everyday scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 7 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Tapioca Starch, Maltodextrin, Cocoa Powder 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 7
- Many flagged · of 24 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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
8/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
03020128 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sugar free instant label screening desk
12 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propyl Gallate). Source sheet 03020128 · 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: Neon sour gummi worms candy, neon sour gummi worms · Nearest score peer is Neon sour gummi worms candy, neon sour gummi worms 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.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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 18,164 products we've scored in the Desserts category, the average safety score is 89.5/100. Sugar free instant scores 89.5 points below that category average (0/100 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
Sugar free instant lists 24 ingredients on its label
24 65th percentile a longer ingredient list than 65% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
- 6–8
- 461 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 1,026 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
- 24–26
- 590 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 542 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 439 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 422 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 346 products (3%)
- 34–36
- 312 products (3%)
- 36–38
- 249 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 211 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 754 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. 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (7 flagged of 24 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Modified tapioca starch, maltodextrin, cocoa powder processed with alkali, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, colored maltodextrin (with red 40, yellow 5, blue 1), disodium phosphate, contains 2% or less of mono - and diglycerides, salt, microcrystalline cellulose, nonfat milk, titanium dioxide (for color), xanthan gum, aspartame* (sweetener), acesulfame potassium (sweetener), palm oil, modified food starch, natural and artificial flavoring, citric acid, propyl gallate.
Other products containing Colored Maltodextrin
Colored Maltodextrin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 12 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Essential Everyday
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Sugar free instant
Neighbours outside Essential Everyday in the same lower screening band as Sugar free instant (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Essential Everyday; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (7 flagged of 24 on 0041303020128).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (24 on 0041303020128).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Propyl Gallate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sugar free instant's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 24-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Propyl Gallate. Open Propyl Gallate
- Compare Sugar free instant's 7 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 0041303020128: 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.