Custard Powder Mix
by Tazah
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0738960241279 · Tazah · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Custard Powder Mix by Tazah scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 5 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 5-component label led by Corn Starch, Natural Cream Flavor, Vanilla Flavor; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 5 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
60241279 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Custard Powder Mix label screening desk
2 of 5 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 5). Source sheet 60241279 · 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: Peanut Butter & Jelly Apple · Nearest score peer is Peanut Butter & Jelly Apple 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.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 18,164 products we've scored in the Desserts category, the average safety score is 89.5/100. Custard Powder Mix scores 39.5 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 89.5/100), 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 Desserts products
Custard Powder Mix lists 5 ingredients on its label
5 1st percentile a longer ingredient list than 1% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
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- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
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- 461 products (4%)
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- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
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- 1,026 products (9%)
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- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
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- 590 products (5%)
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- 439 products (4%)
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- 346 products (3%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 249 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 211 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 754 products (7%)
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 11,156 Desserts 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 5 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Corn starch, cream flavor, vanilla flavor, fd&c yellow 5, fd&c red 40
Other products containing Natural Cream Flavor
Natural Cream Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 118 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Tazah
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Custard Powder Mix
Neighbours outside Tazah near Custard Powder Mix's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tazah; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 40% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (5 on 0738960241279).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 5 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Custard Powder Mix's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 5-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 5. Open Yellow 5
- Compare Custard Powder Mix's 2 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 0738960241279: 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.