Safe

Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks

by Del Monte

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0068297100025 · Del Monte · Fruit-snack. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0068297100025 · Serving size 2 pouches (40 g)

The verdict

Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks by Del Monte scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Banana Chips, Bananas, Coconut Oil; 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 9 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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

97100025 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 9 ing. REG-SPARSE 22% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-LONG Len top 63% LEAD-RARE Coconut Oil PHOTO-FINISH Red Onion & · ±0 BOOK-OFF …100025 · July 2026

2 of 9 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Coconut Oil). Source sheet 97100025 · 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: Red Onion & Chive Bagels · Nearest score peer is Red Onion & Chive Bagels at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out 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 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

1. Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Banana Chips and Dark Cho…100/1002. Red Onion & Chive Bagels: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Red Onion & Chive Bagels100/1003. New York Bakery Co. Sesame Bagels: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. New York Bakery Co. Sesam…100/1004. Baked Snack Cracker Thins: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Baked Snack Cracker Thins100/1005. Rice Crackers: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Rice Crackers100/100
High-band neighbours for Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks (100/100) outside Del Monte.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks
100/100
Red Onion & Chive Bagels
100/100
New York Bakery Co. Sesame Bagels
100/100
Baked Snack Cracker Thins
100/100
Rice Crackers
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88 products we've scored in the Fruit-snack category, the average safety score is 97.2/100. Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks scores 2.8 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.2/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Fruit-snack products

Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks lists 9 ingredients on its label

9 37th percentile a longer ingredient list than 37% of the 70 products we track

2–4: 4 products (6%). Below this entry. 4–6: 7 products (10%). Below this entry. 6–8: 10 products (14%). Below this entry. 8–10: 8 products (11%). This entry sits in this band. 10–12: 10 products (14%). Above this entry. 12–14: 9 products (13%). Above this entry. 14–16: 3 products (4%). Above this entry. 16–18: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 18–20: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 20–22: 4 products (6%). Above this entry. 22–24: 6 products (9%). Above this entry. 24–26: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 2 42 every published Fruit-snack product, bucketed by value

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

70 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 9 (37th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

2–4
4 products (6%)
4–6
7 products (10%)
6–8
10 products (14%)
8–10
8 products (11%)
10–12
10 products (14%)
12–14
9 products (13%)
14–16
3 products (4%)
16–18
1 products (1%)
18–20
2 products (3%)
20–22
4 products (6%)
22–24
6 products (9%)
24–26
2 products (3%)
26–28
1 products (1%)
28–30
1 products (1%)
34–36
1 products (1%)
40 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 70 Fruit-snack products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Banana chips (bananas, coconut oil, sugar, natural banana flavour), Dark chocolate chunks (cocoa liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa powder)

Other products containing Natural Banana Flavour

Natural Banana Flavour is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Fruit-snack

High-score cross-brand comparables for Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks

Neighbours outside Del Monte with screening scores in the same high band as Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Del Monte; these peers cross brands.

Trace this label’s coverage

Trace this label’s coverage

2 of 9 parsed ingredients on Banana Chips and Dark Chocolate Chunks match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0068297100025: 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.