Avoid

Light Nonfat Yogurt

by Meijer Distribution Inc.

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0708820427815 · Meijer Distribution Inc. · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0708820427815 · Serving size 6 ONZ (170 g)

The verdict

Light Nonfat Yogurt by Meijer Distribution Inc. scores 15/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Nonfat Milk, Water, Modified Food Starch. 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.

15/100
Avoid safety score
5
Many flagged · of 18 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
B
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

30/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

15/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

B

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.

20427815 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Light Nonfat Yogurt label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 15/100 FLAG-MANY 5 flagged LEN-LAYERED 18 ing. REG-MOST 61% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-SHORT Len top 12% LEAD-FLAG Fructose PHOTO-FINISH Stuffed Donut Bites · ±0 BOOK-OFF …427815 · July 2026

11 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 20427815 · 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: Stuffed Donut Bites · Nearest score peer is Stuffed Donut Bites 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.

The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.

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

1. Light Nonfat Yogurt: 15/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Light Nonfat Yogurt15/1002. Stuffed Donut Bites: 15/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Stuffed Donut Bites15/1003. Caramel Tres Leches Cake: 15/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Caramel Tres Leches Cake15/1004. Sport Liquid Water Enhancer: 15/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Sport Liquid Water Enhanc…15/1005. Ice cream: 15/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ice cream15/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Light Nonfat Yogurt (15/100 on 18 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Light Nonfat Yogurt
15/100
Stuffed Donut Bites
15/100
Caramel Tres Leches Cake
15/100
Sport Liquid Water Enhancer
15/100
Ice cream
15/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Light Nonfat Yogurt scores 82.8 points below that category average (15/100 vs. 97.8/100), 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 Dairies products

Light Nonfat Yogurt lists 18 ingredients on its label

18 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 21,438 products we track

0–2: 120 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,805 products (13%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,714 products (22%). Below this entry. 6–8: 2,694 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 1,996 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 1,884 products (9%). Below this entry. 12–14: 1,734 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 1,639 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 1,261 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 841 products (4%). This entry sits in this band. 20–22: 481 products (2%). Above this entry. 22–24: 303 products (1%). Above this entry. 24–26: 228 products (1%). Above this entry. 26–28: 151 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 122 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 115 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 81 products (0%). Above this entry. 34–36: 57 products (0%). Above this entry. 36–38: 45 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 33 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 134 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Dairies product, bucketed by value

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

21,438 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 18 (88th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
120 products (1%)
2–4
2,805 products (13%)
4–6
4,714 products (22%)
6–8
2,694 products (13%)
8–10
1,996 products (9%)
10–12
1,884 products (9%)
12–14
1,734 products (8%)
14–16
1,639 products (8%)
16–18
1,261 products (6%)
18–20
841 products (4%)
20–22
481 products (2%)
22–24
303 products (1%)
24–26
228 products (1%)
26–28
151 products (1%)
28–30
122 products (1%)
30–32
115 products (1%)
32–34
81 products (0%)
34–36
57 products (0%)
36–38
45 products (0%)
38–40
33 products (0%)
40 and above
134 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 21,438 Dairies 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 15/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Cultured pasteurized grade a nonfat milk, water, modified food starch, fructose, cherries, natural flavor, sucralose, carrageenan, pectin, citric acid, calcium phosphate, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), acesulfame potassium, blue 1, malic acid, red 40, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.

Categories

Dairies Fermented foods Fermented milk products Desserts Dairy desserts Fermented dairy desserts Yogurts

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Light Nonfat Yogurt

Neighbours outside Meijer Distribution Inc. in the same lower screening band as Light Nonfat Yogurt (15/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Meijer Distribution Inc.; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Fructose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Light Nonfat Yogurt'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 Fructose. Open Fructose
  • Compare Light Nonfat Yogurt's 5 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 0708820427815: 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.