Milk Chocolate Topping
by Smucker's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051500101667 · Smucker's · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Milk Chocolate Topping by Smucker's scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 21 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 21-component label is layered, beginning with Nonfat Milk, High-fructose corn syrup, Corn Syrup. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 21 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
00101667 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Milk Chocolate Topping label screening desk
7 of 21 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 00101667 · 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: Sparkling Water · Nearest score peer is Sparkling Water 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
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 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Milk Chocolate Topping scores 5.9 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 90.9/100), 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 Cooking helpers products
Milk Chocolate Topping lists 21 ingredients on its label
21 72nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 72% of the 1,898 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
- 0–2
- 36 products (2%)
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- 95 products (5%)
- 4–6
- 146 products (8%)
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- 252 products (13%)
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- 178 products (9%)
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- 121 products (6%)
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- 148 products (8%)
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- 124 products (7%)
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- 111 products (6%)
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- 107 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 84 products (4%)
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- 74 products (4%)
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- 58 products (3%)
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- 47 products (2%)
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- 38–40
- 13 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 135 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 1,898 Cooking helpers 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 21 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Nonfat Milk, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Sugar, Milk Protein Concentrate, Canola Oil, Chocolate Liquor (With Milk And Soybean), Palm Oil, Cocoa, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Maltodextrin, Buttermilk Powder, Fully Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin (Artificial Flavor), Tbhq (Antioxidant).
Other products containing With Milk And Soybean
With Milk And Soybean is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Smucker's
High-score cross-brand comparables for Milk Chocolate Topping
Neighbours outside Smucker's with screening scores in the same high band as Milk Chocolate Topping (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Smucker's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 21 on 0051500101667).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (21 on 0051500101667).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Milk Chocolate Topping's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 21-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Milk Chocolate Topping'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 0051500101667: 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.