Zero Fruit Punch
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0193968293697 · Member's Mark · Sports-drink. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Zero Fruit Punch by Member's Mark scores 45/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 11 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 11-component label led by Purified Water, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate; 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.
- 45/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 11 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
45/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
68293697 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Zero Fruit Punch label screening desk
5 of 11 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 68293697 · 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: Smart sense, green tea, citrus · Nearest score peer is Smart sense, green tea, citrus 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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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 94 products we've scored in the Sports-drink category, the average safety score is 83/100. Zero Fruit Punch scores 38 points below that category average (45/100 vs. 83/100), 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 Sports-drink products
Zero Fruit Punch lists 11 ingredients on its label
11 25th percentile a longer ingredient list than 25% of the 80 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
- 4–6
- 3 products (4%)
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- 7 products (9%)
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- 5 products (6%)
- 10–12
- 10 products (13%)
- 12–14
- 7 products (9%)
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- 8 products (10%)
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- 7 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 5 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 11 products (14%)
- 22–24
- 3 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 6 products (8%)
- 28–30
- 1 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 2 products (3%)
- 32–34
- 1 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 1 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 2 products (3%)
- 38 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 80 Sports-drink 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 45/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 11 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PURIFIED WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, MONOPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, GUM ARABIC, NATURAL FLAVOR, SUCRALOSE, GLYCEROL ESTER OF ROSIN, RED 40, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM
Categories
More from Member's Mark
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Zero Fruit Punch
Neighbours outside Member's Mark in the same lower screening band as Zero Fruit Punch (45/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Member's Mark; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 11 on 0193968293697).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (11 on 0193968293697).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Acesulfame Potassium is the first flagged ingredient selected from Zero Fruit Punch's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 11-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Acesulfame Potassium. Open Acesulfame Potassium
- Compare Zero Fruit Punch'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 0193968293697: 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.