GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch
by Gatorade
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052000044263 · Gatorade · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch by Gatorade scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 12 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 12-component label led by Water, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 12 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
38/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00044263 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch label screening desk
6 of 12 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 00044263 · 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: Brisk Iced Tea + Lemonade Half & Half · Nearest score peer is Brisk Iced Tea + Lemonade Half & Half 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 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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
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. GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch scores 50.5 points below that category average (40/100 vs. 90.5/100), 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 Beverages products
GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch lists 12 ingredients on its label
12 68th percentile a longer ingredient list than 68% of the 16,917 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 161 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,220 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 1,699 products (10%)
- 6–8
- 2,564 products (15%)
- 8–10
- 2,835 products (17%)
- 10–12
- 2,099 products (12%)
- 12–14
- 1,442 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 997 products (6%)
- 16–18
- 595 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 402 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 347 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 277 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 256 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 216 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 131 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 66 products (0%)
- 32–34
- 51 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 47 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 43 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 51 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 418 products (2%)
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 16,917 Beverages 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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 12 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, citric acid, sodium citrate, salt, monopotassium phosphate, modified food starch, natural flavor, sucralose, glycerol ester of rosin, red 40, acesulfame potassium, caramel color.
Categories
More from Gatorade
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch
Neighbours outside Gatorade in the same lower screening band as GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch (40/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Gatorade; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 33% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (12 on 0052000044263).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Acesulfame Potassium is the first flagged ingredient selected from GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 12-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Acesulfame Potassium. Open Acesulfame Potassium
- Compare GATORADE ZERO Fruit Punch's 4 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 0052000044263: 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.