Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate
by Muscle Milk
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0660726595206 · Muscle Milk · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate by Muscle Milk scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 29-component label is layered, beginning with Milk Derived Protein Blend, Calcium Sodium Caseinate, Whey Protein Isolate. 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 29 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.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
65/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
26595206 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate label screening desk
10 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 26595206 · 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: Fat Free Ice Cream · Nearest score peer is Fat Free Ice Cream 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 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate scores 25.5 points below that category average (65/100 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 products
Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate lists 29 ingredients on its label
29 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 16,917 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 161 products (1%)
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- 40 and above
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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 16,917 Beverages 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 29 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Milk derived protein blend (calcium sodium caseinate, whey protein isolate, milk protein isolate), soluble vegetable fiber, alkalized cocoa powder, non dairy creamer (sunflower oil, maltodextrin, sodium caseinate [a milk derivative], mono - and diglycerides, tocopherols), natural and artificial flavors, magnesium phosphate, canola oil, calcium phosphate, gum blend (cellulose gum, xanthan gum, carrageenan), potassium chloride, less than 1% of: acesulfame potassium, medium chain triglycerides, maltodextrin, ascorbic acid, sucralose, stevia extract, cholecalciferol, vitamin a palmitate.
Other products containing Milk Derived Protein Blend
Milk Derived Protein Blend is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 25 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate
Neighbours outside Muscle Milk near Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Muscle Milk; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 29 on 0660726595206).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (29 on 0660726595206).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Acesulfame Potassium is the first flagged ingredient selected from Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 29-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Acesulfame Potassium. Open Acesulfame Potassium
- Compare Low-Fat Protein Powder, Chocolate'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 0660726595206: 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.