Gatorade Thirst Quencher
by Gatorade
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052000058024 · Gatorade · Sports-drink. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Gatorade Thirst Quencher by Gatorade scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 13 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 13-component label led by Water, Sugar, Dextrose; 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.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 13 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
35/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
25/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00058024 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Gatorade Thirst Quencher label screening desk
7 of 13 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Source sheet 00058024 · 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: Big Ring Candy Gummies · Nearest score peer is Big Ring Candy Gummies 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 94 products we've scored in the Sports-drink category, the average safety score is 83/100. Gatorade Thirst Quencher scores 58 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 83/100), 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 Sports-drink products
Gatorade Thirst Quencher lists 13 ingredients on its label
13 34th percentile a longer ingredient list than 34% of the 80 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
- 4–6
- 3 products (4%)
- 6–8
- 7 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 5 products (6%)
- 10–12
- 10 products (13%)
- 12–14
- 7 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 8 products (10%)
- 16–18
- 7 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 5 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 11 products (14%)
- 22–24
- 3 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 6 products (8%)
- 28–30
- 1 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 2 products (3%)
- 32–34
- 1 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 1 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 2 products (3%)
- 38 and above
- 1 products (1%)
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 80 Sports-drink 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 25/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 13 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, sugar, dextrose, citric acid, sodium citrate, salt, monopotassium phosphate, modified food starch, natural flavor, red 40, glycerol ester of rosin, blue 1, yellow 5
Categories
More from Gatorade
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Gatorade Thirst Quencher
Neighbours outside Gatorade in the same lower screening band as Gatorade Thirst Quencher (25/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Gatorade; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 13 on 0052000058024).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (13 on 0052000058024).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 1 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gatorade Thirst Quencher's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 13-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 1. Open Blue 1
- Compare Gatorade Thirst Quencher's 3 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 0052000058024: 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.