Shockingly Smooth
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070847899334 · Monster Energy · Beverages and beverages preparations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Shockingly Smooth by Monster Energy scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 28 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 28-component label is layered, beginning with Carbonated Water, Sugar, Glucose. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 28 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0070847899334
- 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
60/100
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.
47899334 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Shockingly Smooth label screening desk
13 of 28 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 47899334 · 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: Rio punch · Nearest score peer is Rio punch 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Shockingly Smooth scores 30.5 points below that category average (60/100 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 and beverages preparations products
Shockingly Smooth lists 28 ingredients on its label
28 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 4,874 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 103 products (2%)
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- 484 products (10%)
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- 40 and above
- 80 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 4,874 Beverages and beverages preparations 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 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 28 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Carbonated water, sugar, glucose, citric acid, taurine, sodium citrate, natural flavors, panax ginseng flavor, sodium benzoate (preservative), L-carnitine L-tartrate, caffeine, potassium sorbate (preservative), gum arabic, niacinamide (vitamin B3), sucralose, maltodextrin, salt, D-calcium pantothenate (vitamin B5), ester gum, inositol, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), blue 1, cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12).
Other products containing Panax Ginseng Flavor
Panax Ginseng Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 35 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Monster Energy
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Shockingly Smooth
Neighbours outside Monster Energy near Shockingly Smooth's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Monster Energy; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 28 on 0070847899334).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (28 on 0070847899334).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Shockingly Smooth's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 28-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Shockingly Smooth'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 0070847899334: 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.