Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer
by Mio
Open Food Facts label for barcode 04369709 · Mio · Food additives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer by Mio scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 15 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 15-component label led by Water, Malic Acid, Citric Acid; 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.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 15 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 04369709
- 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
20/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
25/100
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.
04369709 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer label screening desk
7 of 15 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 04369709 · 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: Liquid Drink Mix, Iced Tea · Nearest score peer is Liquid Drink Mix, Iced Tea 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 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.
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 322 products we've scored in the Food additives category, the average safety score is 90.2/100. Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer scores 65.2 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 90.2/100), 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 Food additives products
Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer lists 15 ingredients on its label
15 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 101 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 3 products (3%)
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- 32 products (32%)
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- 13 products (13%)
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- 10 products (10%)
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- 14 products (14%)
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- 8 products (8%)
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- 3 products (3%)
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- 5 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 1 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (3%)
- 22 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 101 Food additives 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 25/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 15 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, malic acid, citric acid, natural flavor, stevia leaf extract, sodium citrate, niacinamide (vitamin b3), vitamin b6, vitamin b12, red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, rosemary extract, potassium sorbate.
Categories
More from Mio
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer
Neighbours outside Mio in the same lower screening band as Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer (25/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mio; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 15 on 04369709).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (15 on 04369709).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 15-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Strawberry Orange Liquid Water Enhancer'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 04369709: 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.