Spring Gummies
by Trader Joe's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 00713429 · Trader Joe's · Gummy-candies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Spring Gummies by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 16 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 16-component label is layered, beginning with Cane Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Tapioca Syrup. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 16 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
00713429 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Spring Gummies label screening desk
7 of 16 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Invert Sugar Syrup). Source sheet 00713429 · 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: Nance In Syrup · Nearest score peer is Nance In Syrup at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
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 73 products we've scored in the Gummy-candies category, the average safety score is 75.5/100. Spring Gummies scores 24.5 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 75.5/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Gummy-candies products
Spring Gummies lists 16 ingredients on its label
16 38th percentile a longer ingredient list than 38% of the 68 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
- 10–12
- 5 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 8 products (12%)
- 14–16
- 13 products (19%)
- 16–18
- 12 products (18%)
- 18–20
- 13 products (19%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (7%)
- 24–26
- 2 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 2 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 4 products (6%)
- 40 and above
- 1 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 68 Gummy-candies 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
Full Ingredient List
CANE SUGAR, INVERT SUGAR SYRUP, TAPIOCA SYRUP, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID (ACIDIFIER), NATURAL FLAVORS, COLOR ADDED (SPIRULINA EXTRACT, TURMERIC, FRUIT JUICE, VEGETABLE JUICE), SUNFLOWER OIL, CARNAUBA WAX, SODIUM CITRATE.
Other products containing Acidifier
Acidifier is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 327 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Trader Joe's
High-score cross-brand comparables for Spring Gummies
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Spring Gummies (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (16 on 00713429).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
7 of 16 parsed ingredients on Spring Gummies match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
- Review Invert Sugar Syrup as the most distinctive source-covered entry on this label. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this product with a nearby cross-brand screening score. Compare labels
- Read the methodology before treating source coverage as a food, medical, or dietary conclusion. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 00713429: 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.