Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070074643168 · Baby foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 45 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 45-component record, beginning with Nonfat Milk, Organic High Oleic Safflower Oil, Lactose. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 45 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0070074643168
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
74643168 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs label screening desk
26 of 45 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Hydroxide). Source sheet 74643168 · 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
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 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 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 991 products we've scored in the Baby foods category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs scores 0.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Baby foods products
Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs lists 45 ingredients on its label
45 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% of the 894 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
- 0–2
- 1 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 106 products (12%)
- 4–6
- 196 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 143 products (16%)
- 8–10
- 105 products (12%)
- 10–12
- 56 products (6%)
- 12–14
- 34 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 27 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 20 products (2%)
- 18–20
- 19 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 16 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 14 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 8 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 8 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 11 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 5 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 1 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 5 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 6 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 109 products (12%)
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 894 Baby foods 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
Full Ingredient List
Nonfat Milk, High Oleic Safflower Oil, Lactose, Sucrose, Soy Oil, Coconut Oil, Galactooligosaccharides, Less Than 2% Of:, Natural & Artificial Flavor, C. Cohnii Oil, M. Alpina Oil, Beta-Carotene, Lutein, Lycopene, Calcium Phosphate, Potassium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid, Soy Lecithin, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Taurine, M-Inositol, D-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Zinc Sulfate, Mixed Tocopherols, Niacinamide, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Manganese Sulfate, Phylloquinone, Biotin, Sodium Selenate, Vitamin D3, Vitamin B12, Potassium Phosphate, Magnesium Chloride, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Potassium Hydroxide
Other products containing C. Cohnii Oil
C. Cohnii Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 24 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Similac Go And Grow Vanilla 17.4 Gram Powder 4-16 Packs has a longer ingredient list than 90% of its Baby foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Potassium Hydroxide first, then work through the remaining 45 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0070074643168: 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.