Aspartame Sweetener
by Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc.
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073296005035 · Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc. · Sweeteners. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Aspartame Sweetener by Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc. scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 2 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. Its short parsed label begins Dextrose With Maltodextrin, Phenylalanine, so the useful next step is to inspect those few components directly rather than infer from the composite score. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 2 analyzed
- 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
80/100
Grade A-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
N/A
NOVA food-processing classification
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.
96005035 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Aspartame Sweetener label screening desk
None of the 2 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 96005035 · 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: Key food, real mayonnaise · Nearest score peer is Key food, real mayonnaise 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.
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 3,856 products we've scored in the Sweeteners category, the average safety score is 96.7/100. Aspartame Sweetener scores 3.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 96.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sweeteners products
Aspartame Sweetener lists 2 ingredients on its label
2 12th percentile a longer ingredient list than 12% of the 1,596 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 186 products (12%)
- 2–4
- 431 products (27%)
- 4–6
- 224 products (14%)
- 6–8
- 176 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 186 products (12%)
- 10–12
- 232 products (15%)
- 12–14
- 56 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 78 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (1%)
- 18–20
- 9 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 2 products (0%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (0%)
- 28–30
- 2 products (0%)
- 32 and above
- 1 products (0%)
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 1,596 Sweeteners 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
Dextrose with maltodextrin, aspartame.* *phenylketonurics: contains phenylalanine.
Other products containing Dextrose With Maltodextrin
Dextrose With Maltodextrin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 134 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Aspartame Sweetener
Neighbours outside Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Aspartame Sweetener (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Key Food Stores Co-Operative Inc.; 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).
Check the compact label closely
Check the compact label closely
Aspartame Sweetener has a shorter ingredient list than 88% of its Sweeteners category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.
- Start with the parsed ingredient profiles and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
- Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
- Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0073296005035: 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.