Tang Orange
by Tang
Scores 35/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with 3 flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Tang Orange by Tang scores 35/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 12 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 12-component label led by 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.
- 35/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- flagged ingredients of 12 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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.
04366401 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tang Orange label screening desk
Tang Orange holds 35/100 with 3 flagged of 12 parsed ingredients (25% of the list). 5 of 12 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). See methodology for how the shelf-label bands are computed. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Liquid Drink Mix · Nearest score peer is Liquid Drink Mix 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Tang Orange scores 55.5 points below that category average (35/100 vs. 90.5/100), 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 Beverages and beverages preparations products
Tang Orange lists 12 ingredients on its label
12 58th percentile a longer ingredient list than 58% of the 4,874 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
- 0–2
- 103 products (2%)
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- 484 products (10%)
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- 475 products (10%)
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- 619 products (13%)
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- 595 products (12%)
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- 381 products (8%)
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- 272 products (6%)
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- 187 products (4%)
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- 134 products (3%)
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- 95 products (2%)
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- 69 products (1%)
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- 5 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 7 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 80 products (2%)
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 4,874 Beverages and beverages preparations 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
Water, citric acid, sodium citrate, sucralose (sweetener), gum arabic, contains less than 2% of natural and artificial flavor, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, yellow 5, yellow 6, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives).
Other products containing Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate
Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 416 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Tang Orange
Neighbours outside Tang in the same lower screening band as Tang Orange (35/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tang; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 12 on 04366401).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (12 on 04366401).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tang Orange's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 12-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Tang Orange'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 04366401: 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.