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Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla

Name: Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla - Safety Analysis
Creator: PlainFoodSafe
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0681131133500 · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Compiled by PlainFoodSafe · July 31, 2026

Barcode 0681131133500 · Serving size 2 SCOOPS (60 g)

The verdict

Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 42 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 42-component record, beginning with Sugar, Milk Protein Concentrate, Maltodextrin. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score: 1
One flagged · of 42 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

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

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.

31133500 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 42 ing. REG-PART 52% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 2% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …133500 · July 2026

22 of 42 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 31133500 · 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

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

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.

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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla scores 4.5 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 90.5/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Beverages products

Equate, nutritional drink mix, vanilla lists 42 ingredients on its label

42 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 16,917 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

16,917 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 42 (98th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2: 161 products (1%)
2–4: 2,220 products (13%)
4–6: 1,699 products (10%)
6–8: 2,564 products (15%)
8–10: 2,835 products (17%)
10–12: 2,099 products (12%)
12–14: 1,442 products (9%)
14–16: 997 products (6%)
16–18: 595 products (4%)
18–20: 402 products (2%)
20–22: 347 products (2%)
22–24: 277 products (2%)
24–26: 256 products (2%)
26–28: 216 products (1%)
28–30: 131 products (1%)
30–32: 66 products (0%)
32–34: 51 products (0%)
34–36: 47 products (0%)
36–38: 43 products (0%)
38–40: 51 products (0%)
40 and above: 418 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 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.