Safe

Classic Caramel Sauce

by Fran's Chocolates

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0749668050049 · Fran's Chocolates · Sweeteners. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0749668050049 · Serving size 2 Tbsp (43 g)

The verdict

Classic Caramel Sauce by Fran's Chocolates scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 8 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 8-component label led by Cream, Milk, Sugar; 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 8 analyzed
Group 3
Processed foods
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

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 3

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.

68050049 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Classic Caramel Sauce label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 8 ing. REG-SPARSE 25% reg. NOVA-G3 G3 processed NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 36% LEAD-FLAG Sugar PHOTO-FINISH Macadamia Gold Bar · ±0 BOOK-OFF …050049 · July 2026

2 of 8 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sugar). Source sheet 68050049 · 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: Macadamia Gold Bar · Nearest score peer is Macadamia Gold Bar at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out 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

1. Classic Caramel Sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Classic Caramel Sauce100/1002. Macadamia Gold Bar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Macadamia Gold Bar100/1003. Fran's Chocolate, Almond Gold Chocolate Bar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Fran's Chocolate, Almond …100/1004. Dark Hot Chocolate: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Dark Hot Chocolate100/1005. Tuscan Style Uncured Fennel Salami Finocchio: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Tuscan Style Uncured Fenn…100/100
High-band neighbours for Classic Caramel Sauce (100/100) outside Fran's Chocolates.
Chart values as text

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

Classic Caramel Sauce
100/100
Macadamia Gold Bar
100/100
Fran's Chocolate, Almond Gold Chocolate Bar
100/100
Dark Hot Chocolate
100/100
Tuscan Style Uncured Fennel Salami Finocchio
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 3,856 products we've scored in the Sweeteners category, the average safety score is 96.7/100. Classic Caramel Sauce scores 3.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 96.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Sweeteners products

Classic Caramel Sauce lists 8 ingredients on its label

8 64th percentile a longer ingredient list than 64% of the 1,596 products we track

0–2: 186 products (12%). Below this entry. 2–4: 431 products (27%). Below this entry. 4–6: 224 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 176 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 186 products (12%). This entry sits in this band. 10–12: 232 products (15%). Above this entry. 12–14: 56 products (4%). Above this entry. 14–16: 78 products (5%). Above this entry. 16–18: 8 products (1%). Above this entry. 18–20: 9 products (1%). Above this entry. 20–22: 2 products (0%). Above this entry. 22–24: 5 products (0%). Above this entry. 28–30: 2 products (0%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1 products (0%). Above this entry. This product 0 34 every published Sweeteners 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

1,596 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 8 (64th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
186 products (12%)
2–4
431 products (27%)
4–6
224 products (14%)
6–8
176 products (11%)
8–10
186 products (12%)
10–12
232 products (15%)
12–14
56 products (4%)
14–16
78 products (5%)
16–18
8 products (1%)
18–20
9 products (1%)
20–22
2 products (0%)
22–24
5 products (0%)
28–30
2 products (0%)
32 and above
1 products (0%)

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 1,596 Sweeteners products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Cream (milk), sugar, non-gmo corn syrup, water, salt, cream of tartar, citric acid and vanilla.

Categories

Sweeteners Syrups Simple syrups

High-score cross-brand comparables for Classic Caramel Sauce

Neighbours outside Fran's Chocolates with screening scores in the same high band as Classic Caramel Sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Fran's Chocolates; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sugar is the first flagged ingredient selected from Classic Caramel Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 8-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sugar. Open Sugar
  • Compare Classic Caramel Sauce's 0 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 0749668050049: 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.