Sports zero electrolyte beverage
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0193968901899 · Member's Mark · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sports zero electrolyte beverage by Member's Mark scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 5 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 5-component label led by Purified Water, Citric Phosphate, Gum Arabic; 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 5 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0193968901899
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
68901899 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sports zero electrolyte beverage label screening desk
1 of 5 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 68901899 · 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: Black raspberry · Nearest score peer is Black raspberry 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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.
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 3,895 products we've scored in the Dietary supplements category, the average safety score is 93.5/100. Sports zero electrolyte beverage scores 8.5 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 93.5/100), 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 Dietary supplements products
Sports zero electrolyte beverage lists 5 ingredients on its label
5 8th percentile a longer ingredient list than 8% of the 2,658 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 32 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 102 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 197 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 258 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 249 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 252 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 226 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 185 products (7%)
- 16–18
- 152 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 131 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 127 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 87 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 88 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 64 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 57 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 39 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 33 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 41 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 47 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 36 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 255 products (10%)
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 2,658 Dietary supplements 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 5 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PURIFIED WATER, CITRIC PHOSPHATE, GUM ARABIC, SUCRALOSE, GLYCEROL ESTER OF ROSIN.
Categories
More from Member's Mark
High-score cross-brand comparables for Sports zero electrolyte beverage
Neighbours outside Member's Mark with screening scores in the same high band as Sports zero electrolyte beverage (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Member's Mark; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 5 on 0193968901899).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (5 on 0193968901899).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sports zero electrolyte beverage's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 5-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Sports zero electrolyte beverage'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 0193968901899: 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.