Avoid

Gelatin

by Juan J's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0753016002581 · Juan J's · Food additives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0753016002581 · Serving size 5.5 ONZ (156 g)

The verdict

Gelatin by Juan J's scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 19 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 19-component label is layered, beginning with Water, 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.

0/100
Avoid safety score
5
Many flagged · of 19 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0753016002581
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

3/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/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.

16002581 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Gelatin label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 5 flagged LEN-LAYERED 19 ing. REG-PART 53% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-NA Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 5% LEAD-FLAG BHA PHOTO-FINISH Marietta, chocolate candy · ±0 BOOK-OFF …002581 · July 2026

10 of 19 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 16002581 · 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: Marietta, chocolate candy galletas · Nearest score peer is Marietta, chocolate candy galletas 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.

Nutri-Score is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.

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. Gelatin: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Gelatin0/1002. Marietta, chocolate candy galletas: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Marietta, chocolate candy…0/1003. Marietta, chocolate candy cookies: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Marietta, chocolate candy…0/1004. Chocolate & vanilla premium ice cream cake, chocolate & vanilla: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Chocolate & vanilla premi…0/1005. Premium ice cream cake: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Premium ice cream cake0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Gelatin (0/100 on 19 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Gelatin
0/100
Marietta, chocolate candy galletas
0/100
Marietta, chocolate candy cookies
0/100
Chocolate & vanilla premium ice cream cake, chocolate & vanilla
0/100
Premium ice cream cake
0/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 322 products we've scored in the Food additives category, the average safety score is 90.2/100. Gelatin scores 90.2 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 90.2/100), 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 Food additives products

Gelatin lists 19 ingredients on its label

19 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 101 products we track

0–2: 3 products (3%). Below this entry. 2–4: 32 products (32%). Below this entry. 4–6: 13 products (13%). Below this entry. 6–8: 10 products (10%). Below this entry. 8–10: 14 products (14%). Below this entry. 10–12: 8 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 8 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3 products (3%). Below this entry. 16–18: 5 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 1 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 20–22: 3 products (3%). Above this entry. 22–24: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 24 every published Food additives 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

101 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 19 (95th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3 products (3%)
2–4
32 products (32%)
4–6
13 products (13%)
6–8
10 products (10%)
8–10
14 products (14%)
10–12
8 products (8%)
12–14
8 products (8%)
14–16
3 products (3%)
16–18
5 products (5%)
18–20
1 products (1%)
20–22
3 products (3%)
22 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 101 Food additives 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

Water, milk, sugar, gelatin mix (gelatin, fumaric acid, sodium citrate, contains 2% or less of potassium sorbate (preservative), salt, natural and artificial flavors, bha (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane, sugar, red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1), gelatin, natural and artificial flavorings, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate as preservatives.

Categories

Food additives Thickeners Gelatin

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Gelatin

Neighbours outside Juan J's in the same lower screening band as Gelatin (0/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Juan J's; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gelatin's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 19-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
  • Compare Gelatin's 5 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 0753016002581: 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.