Meal Replacement Shake
by Equate
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742456140 · Equate · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Meal Replacement Shake by Equate scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 35 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 35-component record, beginning with Fat Free Milk, Water, Canola Oil. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 35 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0078742456140
- 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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
42456140 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Meal Replacement Shake label screening desk
12 of 35 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 42456140 · 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: Mushroom gravy mix · Nearest score peer is Mushroom gravy mix 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 is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Meal Replacement Shake scores 1.4 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Meal Replacement Shake lists 35 ingredients on its label
35 62nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 62% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
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- 315 products (3%)
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- 412 products (4%)
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- 542 products (5%)
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- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 574 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 451 products (4%)
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- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 35 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Fat free milk, water, canola oil, fructose, cocoa (processed with alkali), cellulose gel, cellulose gum, soy lecithin, potassium phosphate, natural and artificial flavor, carrageenan, sodium phosphate, acesulfame potassium and sucralose (non-nutritive sweeteners). vitamins & minerals: sodium ascorbate, vitamin a palmitate, dicalcium phosphate, cholecalciferol, phytonadione, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin, d-calcium pantothenate, zinc gluconate, manganese sulfate, sodium molybdate, ferric orthophosphate, d, l-alpha tocopheryl acetate, thiamine hydrochloride, niacinamide, folic acid, biotin, dimagnesium phosphate, sodium selenite, chromium chloride.
Other products containing L-alpha Tocopheryl Acetate
L-alpha Tocopheryl Acetate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 20 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Equate
High-score cross-brand comparables for Meal Replacement Shake
Neighbours outside Equate with screening scores in the same high band as Meal Replacement Shake (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Equate; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 35 on 0078742456140).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (35 on 0078742456140).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Fructose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Meal Replacement Shake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 35-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Fructose. Open Fructose
- Compare Meal Replacement Shake's 1 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 0078742456140: 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.