Vanilla Protein
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0834450000156 · Ideal Protein · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Vanilla Protein by Ideal Protein scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 13 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 13-component label led by Water, Milk Protein Isolate, Cream; 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 13 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
80/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
50000156 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Vanilla Protein label screening desk
4 of 13 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 50000156 · 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: Snack Sticks · Nearest score peer is Snack Sticks 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 3,895 products we've scored in the Dietary supplements category, the average safety score is 93.5/100. Vanilla Protein scores 13.5 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 93.5/100), 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 Dietary supplements products
Vanilla Protein lists 13 ingredients on its label
13 45th percentile a longer ingredient list than 45% of the 2,658 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
- 32 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 102 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 197 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 258 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 249 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 252 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 226 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 185 products (7%)
- 16–18
- 152 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 131 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 127 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 87 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 88 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 64 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 57 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 39 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 33 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 41 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 47 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 36 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 255 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 2,658 Dietary supplements 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
How the 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 13 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, milk protein isolate, cream, contains 1 percent or less of inulin, sea salt, natural flavors, cellulose, cellulose gum, carrageenan, mono - and diglycerides, sodium phosphate, sucralose. Contains milk. Sweetened with non-nutritive sweetener.
Categories
More from Ideal Protein
High-score cross-brand comparables for Vanilla Protein
Neighbours outside Ideal Protein with screening scores in the same high band as Vanilla Protein (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ideal Protein; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 13 on 0834450000156).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (13 on 0834450000156).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Vanilla Protein's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 13-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Vanilla Protein's 2 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 0834450000156: 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.