Avoid

Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder

by Flex

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0850018774253 · Flex · Dietary supplements. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0850018774253 · Serving size 1.0 scoop (31.7 g)

The verdict

Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder by Flex scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 25 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 6 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 25-component label is layered, beginning with Instantized Whey Protein Concentrate, Instantized Whey Protein Isolate, Acacia Gum. 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
6
Many flagged · of 25 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

28/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

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.

18774253 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 6 flagged LEN-LAYERED 25 ing. REG-PART 36% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-MID Len top 23% LEAD-FLAG Sucralose PHOTO-FINISH Sugar Cookie with · ±0 BOOK-OFF …774253 · July 2026

9 of 25 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 18774253 · 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: Sugar Cookie with Heart Sprinkles · Nearest score peer is Sugar Cookie with Heart Sprinkles 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 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.

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

1. Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Birthday Cake Batter Prot…0/1002. Sugar Cookie with Heart Sprinkles: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Sugar Cookie with Heart S…0/1003. Bran Flakes Cereal: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Bran Flakes Cereal0/1004. Classic mix jelly beans: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Classic mix jelly beans0/1005. MaltOMeal Berry Colossal Crunch: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. MaltOMeal Berry Colossal …0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder (0/100 on 25 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder
0/100
Sugar Cookie with Heart Sprinkles
0/100
Bran Flakes Cereal
0/100
Classic mix jelly beans
0/100
MaltOMeal Berry Colossal Crunch
0/100

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. Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder scores 93.5 points below that category average (0/100 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

Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder lists 25 ingredients on its label

25 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% of the 2,658 products we track

0–2: 32 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 102 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 197 products (7%). Below this entry. 6–8: 258 products (10%). Below this entry. 8–10: 249 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 252 products (9%). Below this entry. 12–14: 226 products (9%). Below this entry. 14–16: 185 products (7%). Below this entry. 16–18: 152 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 131 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 127 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 87 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 88 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 26–28: 64 products (2%). Above this entry. 28–30: 57 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 39 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 33 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 41 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 47 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 36 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 255 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Dietary supplements 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

2,658 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 25 (77th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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 0/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (6 flagged of 25 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Instantized Whey Protein Concentrate, instantized Whey Protein Isolate, Organic Acacia Gum (as Fibergum Bio L Micellar Casein, Carnival Blend Decorettes [(Sugar Com Starch Vegetable Oil (palm, palm kernel), Dextrin, Soy Lecithin, Confectioner's Glaze, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Red 40 Lake Carnauba Wax, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Red 3. Blue 1, Red 40], Natural Flavor, Salt, Gum Blend (cellulose Dum, xanthan gum, carrageenan), Sucralose.

Categories

Dietary supplements Bodybuilding supplements Protein powders

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder

Neighbours outside Flex in the same lower screening band as Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Flex; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 25-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
  • Compare Birthday Cake Batter Protein Powder's 6 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 0850018774253: 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.