Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0300450839183 · Mcneil Nutritionals Llc · Fats. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread by Mcneil Nutritionals Llc scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 14 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 14-component label led by Liquid Canola Oil, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil; 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 14 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
50839183 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread label screening desk
3 of 14 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Vitamin A Palmitate). Source sheet 50839183 · 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: Benecol, light spread · Nearest score peer is Benecol, light spread 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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 6,337 products we've scored in the Fats category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread scores 0.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Fats products
Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread lists 14 ingredients on its label
14 64th percentile a longer ingredient list than 64% of the 788 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 788 Fats 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
Liquid canola oil, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, plant stanol esters,salt, emulsifiers (vegetable mono - and diglycerides. soy lecithin), hydrogenated soybean oil, potassium sorbate, citric acid and calcium disodium edta to preserve freshness, artificial flavor, dl-a-tocopheryl acetate, vitamin a palmitate, colored with beta carotene
Other products containing Citric Acid And Calcium Disodium Edta To Preserve Freshness
Citric Acid And Calcium Disodium Edta To Preserve Freshness is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread
Neighbours outside Mcneil Nutritionals Llc with screening scores in the same high band as Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread (100/100 here). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Mcneil Nutritionals Llc; 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).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (14 on 0300450839183).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
3 of 14 parsed ingredients on Benecol, 55% Vegetable Oil Spread 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 0300450839183: 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.