Designer whey
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0844334001339 · Designer Protein · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Designer whey by Designer Protein scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 30 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 30-component label is layered, beginning with Designer Whey Full Spectrum Peptides, Gmo-free And Rbgh-free Whey Protein Concentrate, Gmo-free And Rbgh-free Whey Protein Isolate. 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 30 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0844334001339
- 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.
34001339 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Designer whey label screening desk
7 of 30 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Zinc Gluconate). Source sheet 34001339 · 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: Natural 100% Whey Protein Powder · Nearest score peer is Natural 100% Whey Protein Powder 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 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Designer whey scores 6.5 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.5/100), 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 Dietary supplements products
Designer whey lists 30 ingredients on its label
30 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 2,658 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 32 products (1%)
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- 102 products (4%)
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- 197 products (7%)
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- 258 products (10%)
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- 87 products (3%)
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- 64 products (2%)
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- 39 products (1%)
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- 41 products (2%)
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Designer Whey Full Spectrum Peptides, GMO-free and rBGH-free Whey Protein Concentrate, GMO-free and rBGH-free Whey Protein Isolate, Digestive Health Blend (GMO-free Prebiotic Vegetable Fiber, Probiotics (Lactobacillus Acidophilus, B. Longum, L. Plantarum), Vegetarian Protease Enzymes), Natural Vanilla Flavor, Electrolyte Blend (Calcium Phosphate, Magnesium Oxide), Sunflower Lecithin, B-Vitamin Blend (Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin), Zinc Gluconate, Stevia Leaf Extract, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Alginate, Cinnamon, Monk Fruit, Annatto, Mixed Tocopherols, Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Designer whey
Neighbours outside Designer Protein with screening scores in the same high band as Designer whey (100/100 here). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Designer Protein; 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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (30 on 0844334001339).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Designer whey has a longer ingredient list than 83% of its Dietary supplements category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Zinc Gluconate first, then work through the remaining 30 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0844334001339: 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.