Gatorade zero
by Gatorade
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052000047752 · Gatorade · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Gatorade zero by Gatorade scores 20/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 31-component record, beginning with Er Case 12 1 Bottle, 360 Ml, Serving Size Ssium 50mg 0% A Significant Source Of Saturated Fat. 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.
- 20/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 31 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
18/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
20/100
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.
00047752 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Gatorade zero label screening desk
8 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Trans Fat). Source sheet 00047752 · 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, Flavored Drink, Strawberry Melon, Strawberry Melon · Nearest score peer is Brisk, Flavored Drink, Strawberry Melon, Strawberry Melon 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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Gatorade zero scores 70.5 points below that category average (20/100 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 lists 31 ingredients on its label
31 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% 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%)
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- 2,835 products (17%)
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- 2,099 products (12%)
- 12–14
- 1,442 products (9%)
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- 997 products (6%)
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- 595 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 402 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 347 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 277 products (2%)
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- 256 products (2%)
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- 216 products (1%)
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- 66 products (0%)
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- 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 20/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 31 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
er case 12 1 bottle (360 ml) serving size rving ies 0g 160mg % daily value* arbohydrate <1g sugars og udes og added sugars ein og amount per serving o calories 0% 1 bottle (360 ml) serving size ssium 50mg 0% a significant source of saturated fat, stat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, amin d, calcium, and iron. 0% total fat og 7% sodium 160mg 0% total carbohydrate <1g 0% total sugars og includes og added sugars 0% protein og amount per serving o calories % daily value* 0% 7% potassium 50mg 0% not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, vitamin d, calcium, and iron. the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories & gay is used for general nutrition advice. water, citric acid, sodium citrate, natural flavor, salt, monopotassium phosphate, modified food starch, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, *the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. water, citric acid, sodium citrate, salt, monopotassium phosphate, gum arabic, natural flavor, sucralose, acesulfame glycerol ester of rosin, red 40, blue 1. glycerol ester of rosin, yellow 6. potassium, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, gatorade 1 total fat og sodium 160mg total carbohydrate total sugars og includes og added sug protein og potassium 50mg not a significant source of sat trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fi vitamin d, calcium, and iron. * the % daily value (dv) tells you how muc in a serving of food contributes to a daily d calories a day is used for general nutrition a water, citric acid, sodium citrate monopotassium phosphate, mo food starch, natural flavor, sucra acesulfame potassium, glycerol of rosin,
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Gatorade zero
Neighbours outside Gatorade in the same lower screening band as Gatorade zero (20/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Gatorade; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 31 on 0052000047752).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (31 on 0052000047752).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Trans Fat is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gatorade zero'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 Trans Fat. Open Trans Fat
- Compare Gatorade zero'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 0052000047752: 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.