Fat free milk
by Smith's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070424001501 · Smith's · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Fat free milk by Smith's scores 45/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 8 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 8-component label led by Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Natural And Artificial Flavors; 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.
- 45/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 8 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
35/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
45/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
24001501 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fat free milk label screening desk
4 of 8 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 24001501 · 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: Juice cocktail · Nearest score peer is Juice cocktail 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Fat free milk scores 52.8 points below that category average (45/100 vs. 97.8/100), 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 Dairies products
Fat free milk lists 8 ingredients on its label
8 48th percentile a longer ingredient list than 48% of the 21,438 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
- 120 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,805 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 4,714 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 2,694 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,996 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 1,884 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 1,734 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 1,639 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 1,261 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 841 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 481 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 303 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 228 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 151 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 122 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 115 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 81 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 57 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 45 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 33 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 134 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 21,438 Dairies 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 45/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 8 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Nonfat milk, sugar, natural and artificial flavors, red 40, blue 1, carrageenan, guar gum, vitamins a palmitate and d3 added.
Other products containing Vitamins A Palmitate And D3 Added
Vitamins A Palmitate And D3 Added is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Smith's
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Fat free milk
Neighbours outside Smith's in the same lower screening band as Fat free milk (45/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Smith's; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 38% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (8 on 0070424001501).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fat free milk's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 8-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Fat free milk's 3 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 0070424001501: 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.