Green Sugar Sprinkles
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071169710253 · Betty Crocker · Bread coverings. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Green Sugar Sprinkles by Betty Crocker scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 10 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 6 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 10-component label led by Sugar, Confectioner's Glaze, Yellow 5; 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 6
- Many flagged · of 10 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0071169710253
- 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
3/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
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.
69710253 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Green Sugar Sprinkles label screening desk
7 of 10 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 69710253 · 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: Cake mate, candy cake decorations · Nearest score peer is Cake mate, candy cake decorations 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.
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.
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 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Green Sugar Sprinkles scores 90.9 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 90.9/100), 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 Bread coverings products
Green Sugar Sprinkles lists 10 ingredients on its label
10 34th percentile a longer ingredient list than 34% of the 41 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 4–6
- 3 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 3 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 8 products (20%)
- 10–12
- 3 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 4 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 1 products (2%)
- 16–18
- 5 products (12%)
- 18–20
- 1 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 1 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 1 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 1 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 2 products (5%)
- 32–34
- 1 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 1 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 3 products (7%)
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 41 Bread coverings 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (6 flagged of 10 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
SUGAR, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, CARNAUBA WAX, BLACK COLOR (RED 40, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5).
Other products containing Black Color
Black Color is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Betty Crocker
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Green Sugar Sprinkles
Neighbours outside Betty Crocker in the same lower screening band as Green Sugar Sprinkles (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Betty Crocker; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 60% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (10 on 0071169710253).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Green Sugar Sprinkles's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 10-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Green Sugar Sprinkles's 6 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 0071169710253: 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.