Concern

Glucerna hungersmart

Name: Glucerna hungersmart - Safety Analysis
Creator: PlainFoodSafe
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

by Abbott

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070074692401 · Abbott · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Compiled by PlainFoodSafe · July 31, 2026

Barcode 0070074692401 · Serving size 325ml

The verdict

Glucerna hungersmart by Abbott scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 50-component record, beginning with Water, Milk Protein Concentrate, Cocoa Powder. 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.

65/100
Concern safety score: 3
Few flagged · of 50 analyzed: Group 4
Ultra-processed: 0070074692401
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

47/100

Grade D

Ingredient Safety

65/100

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.

74692401 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Glucerna hungersmart label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 65/100 FLAG-FEW 3 flagged LEN-DENSE 50 ing. REG-PART 54% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-NA Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 4% LEAD-FLAG Fructose PHOTO-FINISH Max Protein · ±0 BOOK-OFF …692401 · July 2026

27 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 74692401 · 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: Max Protein · Nearest score peer is Max Protein at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

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

This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.

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.

Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Glucerna hungersmart (65/100 on 50 parsed ingredients).

Chart values as text

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

Glucerna hungersmart: 65/100
Max Protein: 65/100
Max Protein Nutrition Shake Milk Chocolate: 65/100
protein smart: 65/100
Butter Pecan Original Nutrition Shake, Butter Pecan: 65/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 3,895 products we've scored in the Dietary supplements category, the average safety score is 93.5/100. Glucerna hungersmart scores 28.5 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 93.5/100), 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 Dietary supplements products

Glucerna hungersmart lists 50 ingredients on its label

50 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 2,658 products we track

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Distribution as text

2,658 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 50 (96th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2: 32 products (1%)
2–4: 102 products (4%)
4–6: 197 products (7%)
6–8: 258 products (10%)
8–10: 249 products (9%)
10–12: 252 products (9%)
12–14: 226 products (9%)
14–16: 185 products (7%)
16–18: 152 products (6%)
18–20: 131 products (5%)
20–22: 127 products (5%)
22–24: 87 products (3%)
24–26: 88 products (3%)
26–28: 64 products (2%)
28–30: 57 products (2%)
30–32: 39 products (1%)
32–34: 33 products (1%)
34–36: 41 products (2%)
36–38: 47 products (2%)
38–40: 36 products (1%)
40 and above: 255 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 2,658 Dietary supplements products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.