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Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels

by Fran's Chocolates Ltd.

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0749668233244 · Fran's Chocolates Ltd. · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0749668233244 · Serving size 1 PIECE (8 g)

The verdict

Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels by Fran's Chocolates Ltd. scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 17-component label is layered, beginning with Cream, Milk, Sugar. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 17 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.

68233244 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 17 ing. REG-SPARSE 18% reg. NOVA-G3 G3 processed NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 50% LEAD-FLAG Sea salt PHOTO-FINISH Fran's, smoked salt · ±0 BOOK-OFF …233244 · July 2026

3 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sea salt). Source sheet 68233244 · 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: Fran's, smoked salt caramels in milk chocolate · Nearest score peer is Fran's, smoked salt caramels in milk chocolate 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.

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. Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Fran's Chocolates, Chocol…100/1002. Fran's, smoked salt caramels in milk chocolate: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Fran's, smoked salt caram…100/1003. Fran's, Gray Salt Caramels In Dark Chocolate: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Fran's, Gray Salt Caramel…100/1004. Fran's, mint thins 65% dark chocolate, mint: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Fran's, mint thins 65% da…100/1005. Fran's, 38% milk chocolate, smoked salt thins: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Fran's, 38% milk chocolat…100/100
High-band neighbours for Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels (100/100) outside Fran's Chocolates Ltd..
Chart values as text

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

Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels
100/100
Fran's, smoked salt caramels in milk chocolate
100/100
Fran's, Gray Salt Caramels In Dark Chocolate
100/100
Fran's, mint thins 65% dark chocolate, mint
100/100
Fran's, 38% milk chocolate, smoked salt thins
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels lists 17 ingredients on its label

17 50th percentile a longer ingredient list than 50% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). This entry sits in this band. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Above this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Above this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Above this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Above this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Above this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 17 (50th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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

Organic cream (milk), organic sugar, milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa beans, skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, cream powder, non-gmo soy lecithin and vanilla), organic tapioca syrup, organic butter (sweet cream [milk]), vanilla extract, organic lemon juice, and sea salt.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Cocoa and its products Confectioneries Chocolate candies

High-score cross-brand comparables for Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels

Neighbours outside Fran's Chocolates Ltd. with screening scores in the same high band as Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Fran's Chocolates Ltd.; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sea salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 17-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sea salt. Open Sea salt
  • Compare Fran's Chocolates, Chocolate, Smoked Salt, Caramels'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 0749668233244: 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.