Chocolate syrup, sugar-free
by Meijer
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0708820957596 · Meijer · Syrups. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chocolate syrup, sugar-free by Meijer scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 16 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 16-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Cocoa Powder, Sorbitol. 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 16 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.
20957596 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chocolate syrup, sugar-free label screening desk
12 of 16 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 20957596 · 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: Ice cream · Nearest score peer is 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 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 1,479 products we've scored in the Syrups category, the average safety score is 93.2/100. Chocolate syrup, sugar-free scores 28.2 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 93.2/100), 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 Syrups products
Chocolate syrup, sugar-free lists 16 ingredients on its label
16 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 110 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 2–4
- 7 products (6%)
- 4–6
- 18 products (16%)
- 6–8
- 12 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 27 products (25%)
- 10–12
- 26 products (24%)
- 12–14
- 11 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 5 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 2 products (2%)
- 20–22
- 1 products (1%)
- 24 and above
- 1 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 110 Syrups 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 16 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
WATER, COCOA POWDER, SORBITOL, PHOSPHORIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, SUCRALOSE, ZINC SULFATE, VITAMIN E ACETATE, NIACINAMIDE, BIOTIN, CARAMEL COLOR.
Categories
More from Meijer
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Chocolate syrup, sugar-free
Neighbours outside Meijer near Chocolate syrup, sugar-free's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Meijer; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 16 on 0708820957596).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (16 on 0708820957596).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chocolate syrup, sugar-free's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 16-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Chocolate syrup, sugar-free'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 0708820957596: 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.