Protein Shake
by Equate
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0681131249454 · Equate · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Protein Shake by Equate scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 49 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 49-component record, beginning with Water, Milk Protein Concentrate, Milk Protein Isolate. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 49 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.
31249454 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Protein Shake label screening desk
22 of 49 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 31249454 · 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 Sugar Free Original Syrup · Nearest score peer is Lite Sugar Free Original 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 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.
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. Protein Shake 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
Protein Shake lists 49 ingredients on its label
49 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 16,917 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 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%)
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- 256 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 216 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 131 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 66 products (0%)
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- 51 products (0%)
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- 47 products (0%)
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- 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.
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 49 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
water, milk protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, sunflower oil, calcium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, inulin, dipotassium phosphate, sodium phosphate, mono - and diglycerides, salt, cellulose gel, natural and artificial flavors, tripotassium phosphate, calcium caseinate, potassium chloride, sodium ascorbate, sucralose, carrageenan, ferric orthophosphate, zinc gluconate, acesulfame potassium, cholecalciferol, choline chloride, copper citrate, cyanocobalamin, dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, folic acid, manganese sulfate, niacinamide, phytonadione, potassium iodide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, retinyl palmitate, riboflavin, sodium molybdate, sodium selenite, thiamine hydrochloride, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D3, vitamin K1, mixed tocopherols, soy lecithin, sodium citrate, sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium polyphosphate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium tripolyphosphate, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, nonnutritive sweeteners
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Protein Shake
Neighbours outside Equate near Protein Shake's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Equate; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 49 on 0681131249454).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (49 on 0681131249454).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Acesulfame Potassium is the first flagged ingredient selected from Protein Shake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 49-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Acesulfame Potassium. Open Acesulfame Potassium
- Compare Protein Shake'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 0681131249454: 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.