Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052745790340 · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 94 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 94-component record, beginning with Milk Chocolate, Sugar, Cocoa Butter. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 94 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
48/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
80/100
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.
45790340 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars label screening desk
18 of 94 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 45790340 · 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
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.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars scores 6.1 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products
Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars lists 94 ingredients on its label
94 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 275 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 2,901 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 4,248 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 5,408 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 5,486 products (7%)
- 10–12
- 5,840 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 6,252 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 6,724 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 6,221 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 5,168 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 4,508 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 3,809 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 3,567 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 2,829 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 2,282 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 1,905 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,715 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 1,572 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 1,417 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 1,284 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 8,066 products (10%)
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 81,477 Snacks 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 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 94 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate liquor, milk, soy lecithin (an emulsifier) and vanilla), dark confection (sugar, palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali, lactose (from milk), soy lecithin, sorbitan tristearate, natural vanilla extract), corn syrup, sugar, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar, skim milk), cream, roasted almonds, water, caramel sauce (corn syrup, sugar, brown sugar, skim milk, palm oil, butter, cornstarch, salt, mono-and diglycerides, potassium sorbate {to preserve freshness}, soy lecithin, caramel color, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, artificial flavor, natural flavor), pecans, soft dark confection (sugar, soybean oil, coconut oil, cocoa powder (processed with alkali), distilled monoglycerides, soy lecithin, salt, vanilla), salted butter (cream, salt), chocolate liquor, 70% dark chocolate (chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin and vanilla), dark chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor {processed with alkali}, cocoa butter, milk, butterfat, soy lecithin, vanilla), invert sugar, raisins (raisins, sunflower oil), palm oil, milk confection (sugar, palm kernel oil, nonfat milk, whole milk, cocoa powder, hydrogenated palm oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), sorbitan tristearate (an emulsifier), soy lecithin and natural vanilla), dextrose, salt, brown sugar, roasted spanish peanuts (spanish peanuts, vegetable oil (peanut, cottonseed, soybean and/or sunflower seed), salt), unsalted butter (cream, natural flavorings), raspberry nuggets (raspberry puree, sucrose, apple, dextrose, pineapple fibers, sodium alginate (thickener), di-calcium phosphate, natural flavor, elderberry juice concentrate, citric acid), gelatin, pure vanilla extract (water, ethyl alcohol, vanilla bean extractives), egg whites, natural and artificial vanilla flavor (glycerine, propylene glycol, water, sugar, caramel color (sulfites), alcohol, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate), raspberry flavor (soybean oil, natural flavors and mixed tocopherols), artificial vanilla flavor (water, ethyl alcohol, natural and artificial flavor), raspberry flavor, invertase (food enzyme derived from saccharomyces cerevisiae), an antioxidant (propylene glycol, tbhq, citric acid).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 94-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Dark chocolate fruit & nut bars's 2 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 0052745790340: 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.