Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0077260060044 · Russell Stover · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate by Russell Stover scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 8 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 8-component label led by Milk Chocolate, Sugar, Whole Milk; 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 8 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0077260060044
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
60060044 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate label screening desk
2 of 8 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Vanillin). Source sheet 60060044 · 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: Cranberry pecan delight caramel in white pastelle, cranberry pecan delight · Nearest score peer is Cranberry pecan delight caramel in white pastelle, cranberry pecan delight 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.
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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate scores 9.5 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 90.5/100), 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 Beverages products
Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate lists 8 ingredients on its label
8 39th percentile a longer ingredient list than 39% of the 16,917 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 161 products (1%)
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- 40 and above
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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 16,917 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
Full Ingredient List
milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk, milk fat, cocoa butter, chocolate, soy lecithin, vanillin)
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate
Neighbours outside Russell Stover with screening scores in the same high band as Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Russell Stover; 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).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (8 on 0077260060044).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
2 of 8 parsed ingredients on Hot Chocolate Meltaway Santas Milk Chocolate match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0077260060044: 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.