Safe

Good Start Gentle Pro

by Dr. Brown's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0810131500023 · Dr. Brown's · Baby-formula. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0810131500023

The verdict

Good Start Gentle Pro by Dr. Brown's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 53-component record, beginning with Whey Protein Concentrate, From Milk, Enzymatically Hydrolyzed. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 53 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0810131500023
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

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

31500023 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Good Start Gentle Pro label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 53 ing. REG-PART 47% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-MID Len top 27% LEAD-RARE Potassium Hydroxide PHOTO-FINISH Dragees 2 chocolats · ±0 BOOK-OFF …500023 · July 2026

25 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Hydroxide). Source sheet 31500023 · 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: Dragees 2 chocolats · Nearest score peer is Dragees 2 chocolats 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 is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Good Start Gentle Pro: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Good Start Gentle Pro100/1002. Dragees 2 chocolats: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Dragees 2 chocolats100/1003. GINGER BEET SuperShot: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. GINGER BEET SuperShot100/1004. Tropical Ginger SuperShot: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Tropical Ginger SuperShot100/1005. SuperStix Digestion + Hydration Dragon Fruit Lemon: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. SuperStix Digestion + Hyd…100/100
High-band neighbours for Good Start Gentle Pro (100/100) outside Dr. Brown's.
Chart values as text

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

Good Start Gentle Pro
100/100
Dragees 2 chocolats
100/100
GINGER BEET SuperShot
100/100
Tropical Ginger SuperShot
100/100
SuperStix Digestion + Hydration Dragon Fruit Lemon
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 62 products we've scored in the Baby-formula category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Good Start Gentle Pro scores 0.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Baby-formula products

Good Start Gentle Pro lists 53 ingredients on its label

53 73rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 73% of the 60 products we track

14–16: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 16–18: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 38–40: 3 products (5%). Below this entry. 40–42: 48 products (80%). This entry sits in this band. This product 14 42 every published Baby-formula 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

60 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 53 (73rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

14–16
2 products (3%)
16–18
1 products (2%)
20–22
1 products (2%)
22–24
1 products (2%)
26–28
1 products (2%)
28–30
1 products (2%)
32–34
2 products (3%)
38–40
3 products (5%)
40 and above
48 products (80%)

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 60 Baby-formula 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

1
Whey Protein Concentrate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
2
From Milk
3
Enzymatically Hydrolyzed
4
Reduced In Minerals
5
Vegetable Oils
6
Palm Olein
7
Soy
8
Organic Coconut
9
High Oleic Safflower Or High Oleic Sunflower
10
Lactose
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
11
Corn Maltodextrin
12
Potassium Hydroxide
FORMULATION AID, FUMIGANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, WASHING OR SURFACE REMOVAL AGENT
GRAS
13
Calcium Chloride
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
GRAS
14
Potassium Phosphate
15
Calcium Phosphate
16
Choline Bitartrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
17
2'-o-fucosyllactose
18
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
19
M. Alpina Oil
20
Schizochytrium Oil
21
Sodium Ascorbate
ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
GRAS
22
Magnesium Chloride
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
23
Sodium Citrate
24
Soy Lecithin
25
Taurine
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe Listed
26
Nucleotides
27
Cytidine 5'-monophosphate
28
Disodium Uridine 5'-monophosphate
29
Adenosine 5'-monophosphate
30
Disodium Guanosine 5'-monophosphate
31
Inositol
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
32
Ferrous Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
33
Alpha-tocopheryl Acetate
34
Mixed Tocopherols
35
Ascorbyl Palmitate
ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
36
Zinc Sulfate
MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
37
Copper Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
38
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
39
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
40
Vitamin A Acetate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
41
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
42
Manganese Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
43
Potassium Iodide
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, TRACER
GRAS
44
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
45
Niacinamide
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
46
Calcium Pantothenate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
47
B. Lactis Cultures
48
L-carnitine
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Listed
49
Phylloquinone
50
Biotin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
51
Sodium Selenate
52
Vitamin D3
53
Vitamin B12

Full Ingredient List

WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (FROM MILK, ENZYMATICALLY HYDROLYZED, REDUCED IN MINERALS), VEGETABLE OILS (PALM OLEIN, SOY, COCONUT, HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER OR HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER), LACTOSE, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CHOLINE BITARTRATE, 2'-O-FUCOSYLLACTOSE, CITRIC ACID, M. ALPINA OIL, SCHIZOCHYTRIUM OIL, SODIUM ASCORBATE, MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM CITRATE, SOY LECITHIN, TAURINE, NUCLEOTIDES (CYTIDINE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE, DISODIUM URIDINE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE, ADENOSINE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE, DISODIUM GUANOSINE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE), INOSITOL, FERROUS SULFATE, ALPHA-TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBYL PALMITATE, ZINC SULFATE, COPPER SULFATE, RIBOFLAVIN, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, VITAMIN A ACETATE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE, MANGANESE SULFATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE, FOLIC ACID, NIACINAMIDE, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, B. LACTIS CULTURES, L-CARNITINE, PHYLLOQUINONE, BIOTIN, SODIUM SELENATE, VITAMIN D3, VITAMIN B12

Other products containing Enzymatically Hydrolyzed

Enzymatically Hydrolyzed is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Baby-formula

High-score cross-brand comparables for Good Start Gentle Pro

Neighbours outside Dr. Brown's with screening scores in the same high band as Good Start Gentle Pro (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Dr. Brown's; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Good Start Gentle Pro has a longer ingredient list than 73% of its Baby-formula category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0810131500023: 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.