Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0766298019734 · Pure Encapsulations · Vitamin-supplement. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder by Pure Encapsulations scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Vitamin C, From Calcium Ascorbate, Magnesium Ascorbate; 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 9 analyzed
- Group 1
- Unprocessed
- 0766298019734
- 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
100/100
Grade A+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed
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.
98019734 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder label screening desk
None of the 9 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 98019734 · 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: magnesium Glycinate · Nearest score peer is magnesium Glycinate 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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 42 products we've scored in the Vitamin-supplement category, the average safety score is 99.4/100. Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder scores 0.6 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.4/100), 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 every product we publish
Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder lists 9 ingredients on its label
9 30th percentile a longer ingredient list than 30% of the 359,392 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Vitamin C (from calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate, and potassium ascorbate), Calcium (from calcium ascorbate), Magnesium (from magnesium ascorbate), Potassium (from potassium ascorbate)
Categories
More from Pure Encapsulations
High-score cross-brand comparables for Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder
Neighbours outside Pure Encapsulations with screening scores in the same high band as Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Pure Encapsulations; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (9 on 0766298019734).
Check the compact label closely
Check the compact label closely
Buffered Ascorbic Acid powder has a shorter ingredient list than 70% of its published comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.
- Start with the parsed ingredient profiles and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
- Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
- Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0766298019734: 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.