Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty
by Lars
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0077034018028 · Lars · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty by Lars scores 35/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Peanuts, Sunflower Oil, Canola Oil. 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.
- 35/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 24 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
25/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
35/100
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.
34018028 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty label screening desk
6 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 2). Source sheet 34018028 · 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: Sweet'N Salty Peanuts, Cocoa Candies, Raisins, Sunflower Kernels Mix, Sweet'N Salty · Nearest score peer is Sweet'N Salty Peanuts, Cocoa Candies, Raisins, Sunflower Kernels Mix, Sweet'N Salty 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.
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.
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 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty scores 62.7 points below that category average (35/100 vs. 97.7/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products
Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty lists 24 ingredients on its label
24 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 63,434 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
- 3,907 products (6%)
- 2–4
- 7,921 products (12%)
- 4–6
- 8,845 products (14%)
- 6–8
- 7,032 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 6,320 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 4,190 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 3,449 products (5%)
- 14–16
- 3,051 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 2,493 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 2,053 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 1,808 products (3%)
- 22–24
- 1,758 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 1,623 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 1,606 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 1,360 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 1,198 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,081 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 901 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 649 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 534 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 1,655 products (3%)
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 63,434 Plant-based foods and 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 35/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 24 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Peanuts, sunflower oil and/or canola oil, salt, caramel flavored coating (sugar, palm kernel oil, nonfat milk solids, whole milk solids, artificial color (includes yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, blue 2 lake), soy lecithin, natural flavor, gum acacia, shellac, corn syrup), raisins, cashews, caramel flavored candies (sugar, palm kernel oil, nonfat milk solids, whole milk solids, artificial color (includes yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake), gum acacia, corn syrup, carnauba wax). Contains: cashews, milk, peanuts, and soy. May contain other tree nuts. Manufactured on equipment that also processes sesame.
Other products containing Caramel Flavored Coating
Caramel Flavored Coating is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 12 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty
Neighbours outside Lars in the same lower screening band as Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty (35/100). No other Lars products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 24 on 0077034018028).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (24 on 0077034018028).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 2 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 24-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 2. Open Blue 2
- Compare Carmel Sweet ‘n Salty's 3 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 0077034018028: 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.