centrum
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0305731042276 · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
centrum scores 20/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 61 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 61-component record, beginning with Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium Oxide, Potassium Chloride. 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.
- 20/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 61 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0305731042276
- 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
17/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
20/100
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.
31042276 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
centrum label screening desk
30 of 61 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 31042276 · 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
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.
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 is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
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. centrum scores 73.5 points below that category average (20/100 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
centrum lists 61 ingredients on its label
61 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% 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 20/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 61 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, microcrystalline cellulose, ascorbic acid (vit, c), dibasic calcium phosphate, dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vit, e), maltodextrin, modified corn starch, corn starch, contains <2% of: beta-carotene, bht (to preserve freshness), biotin, calcium pantothenate, cholecalciferol (vit, d3), chromium picolinate, copper sulfate, crospovidone, cyanocobalamin (vit, b12), ferrous fumarate, folic acid, gelatin, lecithin (soy), lycopene, magnesium stearate, manganese sulfate, niacinamide, phytonadione (vit, k), polyethylene glycol, polyvinyl alcohol, potassium lodide, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vit, b6), red 40 lake, riboflavin (vit, b2), silicon dioxide, sodium ascorbate (to preserve freshness), sodium molybdate, sodium selenate, talc, thiamine mononitrate (vit, b₁), titanium dioxide, tocopherols (to preserve freshness), vitamin a acetate, yellow 6 lake, zinc oxide, contains: soy, as with any supplement, if you are taking medication, consult your doctor before use, warning: accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6, keep this product out of reach of children, in case of accidental overdose, call a doctor or poison control center immediately, if taking other supplements, read label, since supplements may contain the same ingredient,
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from centrum's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 61-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
- Compare centrum's 4 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 0305731042276: 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.