BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate
by Carnation
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0050000356034 · Carnation · Beverages and beverages preparations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate by Carnation scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 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 31-component record, beginning with Nonfat Dry Milk, Sugar, Maltodextrin. 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 31 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0050000356034
- 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.
00356034 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate label screening desk
17 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00356034 · 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: Coffee Creamer · Nearest score peer is Coffee Creamer 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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate 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
BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate lists 31 ingredients on its label
31 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% 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 31 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Nonfat dry milk, sugar, maltodextrin, cocoa processed with alkali, lactose, vitamins and minerals‡, and less than 2% of soy lecithin, carrageenan, natural and artificial flavor; ‡vitamins & minerals: calcium phosphate, magnesium hydroxide, sodium ascorbate (vitamin c), ferric phosphate (iron), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin e), niacinamide, copper gluconate, zinc oxide, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, vitamin a palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), thiamine mononitrate, biotin, folic acid, vitamin k1, vitamin d3, vitamin b12
Other products containing Less Than 2% Of Soy Lecithin
Less Than 2% Of Soy Lecithin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate
Neighbours outside Carnation with screening scores in the same high band as BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Carnation; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 31 on 0050000356034).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (31 on 0050000356034).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 31-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS Nutritional Powder Drink Mix Rich Milk Chocolate'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 0050000356034: 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.