Drink
by Mccoll's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070438012265 · Mccoll's · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Drink by Mccoll's scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 11 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 11-component label led by Water, High-fructose corn syrup, Citric Acid; 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 11 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
38012265 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Drink label screening desk
4 of 11 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Brominated Vegetable Oil). Source sheet 38012265 · 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: Valued naturals, fire cracker snack mix · Nearest score peer is Valued naturals, fire cracker snack mix 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 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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Drink scores 40.5 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 90.5/100), 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 Beverages products
Drink lists 11 ingredients on its label
11 62nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 62% of the 16,917 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
- 161 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,220 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 1,699 products (10%)
- 6–8
- 2,564 products (15%)
- 8–10
- 2,835 products (17%)
- 10–12
- 2,099 products (12%)
- 12–14
- 1,442 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 997 products (6%)
- 16–18
- 595 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 402 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 347 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 277 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 256 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 216 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 131 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 66 products (0%)
- 32–34
- 51 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 47 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 43 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 51 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 418 products (2%)
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 16,917 Beverages 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 11 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, gum arabic, natural and artificial flavors, concentrated orange juice, fd&c yellow #6, glycerol ester of wood rosin, brominated vegetable oil {soy}, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [preservatives].
Other products containing Glycerol Ester Of Wood Rosin
Glycerol Ester Of Wood Rosin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 475 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Drink
Neighbours outside Mccoll's near Drink's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mccoll's; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 11 on 0070438012265).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (11 on 0070438012265).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Brominated Vegetable Oil is the first flagged ingredient selected from Drink's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 11-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Brominated Vegetable Oil. Open Brominated Vegetable Oil
- Compare Drink'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 0070438012265: 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.