Balanced Nutritional Drink
by Boost
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041679940006 · Boost · Beverages and beverages preparations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Balanced Nutritional Drink by Boost scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 43 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 43-component record, beginning with Water, Glucose Syrup, Milk Protein Concentrate. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 43 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0041679940006
- 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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
79940006 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Balanced Nutritional Drink label screening desk
23 of 43 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 79940006 · 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: High protein complete nutritional drink rich chocolate · Nearest score peer is High protein complete nutritional drink rich chocolate 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.
Nutri-Score is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Balanced Nutritional Drink scores 4.5 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 90.5/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Beverages and beverages preparations products
Balanced Nutritional Drink lists 43 ingredients on its label
43 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 4,874 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
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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 4,874 Beverages and beverages preparations 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 43 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
water, glucose syrup, milk protein concentrate, sugar, canola oil, and less than 2% of soy protein isolate, calcium caseinate, sodium caseinate, cocoa processed with alkali, vitamins and minerals, cellulose gel and gum, salt, natural flavor, carrageenan, stevia leaf extract, steviol glycosides #vitamins and minerals: potassium citrate, magnesium chloride, calcium phosphate, sodium ascorbate, magnesium phosphate, choline bitartrate, dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate, potassium chloride, ferric pyrophosphate, zinc sulfate, niacinamide, manganese sulfate, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, copper sulfate, riboflavin, thiamine hydrochloride, vitamin a palmitate, folic acid, potassium iodide, sodium selenate, vitamin k₁, chromium chloride, biotin, vitamin d3, sodium molybdate, vitamin b12 contains: milk and soy ingredients manufactured for nestlé health care nutrition, inc. ratu en 20 o use by:30dec2023 2273572007 a 12:01 da
Other products containing And Less Than 2% Of Soy Protein Isolate
And Less Than 2% Of Soy Protein Isolate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 16 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Balanced Nutritional Drink
Neighbours outside Boost with screening scores in the same high band as Balanced Nutritional Drink (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Boost; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 43 on 0041679940006).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (43 on 0041679940006).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Balanced Nutritional Drink's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 43-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Balanced Nutritional Drink's 1 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 0041679940006: 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.