Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye
by Mccormick
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052100160252 · Mccormick · Food additives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye by Mccormick scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Water, Propylene Glycol, Red 3; 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 9 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0052100160252
- 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
3/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
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.
00160252 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye label screening desk
6 of 9 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 00160252 · 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: Nonpareils Decors · Nearest score peer is Nonpareils Decors 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 is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 322 products we've scored in the Food additives category, the average safety score is 90.2/100. Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye scores 90.2 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 90.2/100), 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 Food additives products
Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye lists 9 ingredients on its label
9 62nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 62% of the 101 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 3 products (3%)
- 2–4
- 32 products (32%)
- 4–6
- 13 products (13%)
- 6–8
- 10 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 14 products (14%)
- 10–12
- 8 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 8 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 3 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 5 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 1 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (3%)
- 22 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 101 Food additives 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 9 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C RED 3, RED 40, BLUE 1, PROPYLPARABEN, RED 3, PD&C BLUE 1, FD&C YELLOW 5.
Other products containing Propylparaben
Propylparaben is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 56 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Mccormick
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye
Neighbours outside Mccormick in the same lower screening band as Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mccormick; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 56% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (9 on 0052100160252).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 9-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
- Compare Neon! Food Color & Egg Dye's 5 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 0052100160252: 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.