Sugar Free Syrup
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644209290475 · Mrs. Butterworth's · Sweeteners. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sugar Free Syrup by Mrs. Butterworth's scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Sorbitol, Cellulose Gum. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 18 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
65/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
09290475 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sugar Free Syrup label screening desk
13 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Aspartame). Source sheet 09290475 · 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: Lite syrup · Nearest score peer is Lite syrup at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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 3,856 products we've scored in the Sweeteners category, the average safety score is 96.7/100. Sugar Free Syrup scores 31.7 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 96.7/100), 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 Sweeteners products
Sugar Free Syrup lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 1,596 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 186 products (12%)
- 2–4
- 431 products (27%)
- 4–6
- 224 products (14%)
- 6–8
- 176 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 186 products (12%)
- 10–12
- 232 products (15%)
- 12–14
- 56 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 78 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (1%)
- 18–20
- 9 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 2 products (0%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (0%)
- 28–30
- 2 products (0%)
- 32 and above
- 1 products (0%)
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 1,596 Sweeteners 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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, sorbitol, contains 2% or less of: cellulose gum, salt, natural and artificial flavor (caramel color, natural and artificial flavor, corn syrup, molasses, lactic acid)*, caramel color, phosphoric acid, preservatives (sorbic acid, sodium benzoate), aspartame, citric acid, sodium hexametaphosphate, acesulfame potassium, neotame.
Other products containing Neotame
Neotame is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 210 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Mrs. Butterworth's
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Sugar Free Syrup
Neighbours outside Mrs. Butterworth's near Sugar Free Syrup's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mrs. Butterworth's; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 18 on 0644209290475).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0644209290475).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Aspartame is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sugar Free Syrup's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Aspartame. Open Aspartame
- Compare Sugar Free Syrup'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 0644209290475: 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.