Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0748927058932 · Optimum Nutrition · Beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix by Optimum Nutrition scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Protein Blend, Whey Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Concentrate; 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 9 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
27058932 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix label screening desk
3 of 9 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acesulfame Potassium). Source sheet 27058932 · 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: Deliciously spicy german brand smoked sausage · Nearest score peer is Deliciously spicy german brand smoked sausage 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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 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 32,623 products we've scored in the Beverages category, the average safety score is 90.5/100. Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix scores 5.5 points below that category average (85/100 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
Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix lists 9 ingredients on its label
9 48th percentile a longer ingredient list than 48% of the 16,917 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 161 products (1%)
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- 2,220 products (13%)
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- 1,699 products (10%)
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- 2,564 products (15%)
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- 2,835 products (17%)
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- 2,099 products (12%)
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- 1,442 products (9%)
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- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 9 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Protein blend (whey protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, whey peptides), cocoa (processed with alkali), lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, acesulfame potassium, lactase.
Other products containing Whey Peptides
Whey Peptides is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix
Neighbours outside Optimum Nutrition with screening scores in the same high band as Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Optimum Nutrition; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 9 on 0748927058932).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (9 on 0748927058932).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Acesulfame Potassium is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 9-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Acesulfame Potassium. Open Acesulfame Potassium
- Compare Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder Drink Mix's 1 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 0748927058932: 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.