Caution

Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink

by DripDrop

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0850042830512 · DripDrop · Electrolyte-drink. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0850042830512 · Serving size 1 stick (10 g)

The verdict

Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink by DripDrop scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 20 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 20-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Fructose, Sodium Citrate. 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.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 20 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

50/100

Grade C-

Ingredient Safety

85/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

42830512 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 20 ing. REG-PART 50% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 22% LEAD-FLAG Fructose PHOTO-FINISH Energy & Focus · ±0 BOOK-OFF …830512 · July 2026

10 of 20 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 42830512 · 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: Energy & Focus Gum · Nearest score peer is Energy & Focus Gum 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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

1. Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Juicy Variety Electrolyte…85/1002. Energy & Focus Gum: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Energy & Focus Gum85/1003. Energy & Focus gum: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Energy & Focus gum85/1004. Energy & Focus mints: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Energy & Focus mints85/1005. Memory & Focus gum: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Memory & Focus gum85/100
High-band neighbours for Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink (85/100) outside DripDrop.
Chart values as text

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

Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink
85/100
Energy & Focus Gum
85/100
Energy & Focus gum
85/100
Energy & Focus mints
85/100
Memory & Focus gum
85/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 84 products we've scored in the Electrolyte-drink category, the average safety score is 95.4/100. Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink scores 10.4 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 95.4/100), 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 Electrolyte-drink products

Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink lists 20 ingredients on its label

20 78th percentile a longer ingredient list than 78% of the 80 products we track

6–8: 10 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 9 products (11%). Below this entry. 10–12: 10 products (13%). Below this entry. 12–14: 11 products (14%). Below this entry. 14–16: 10 products (13%). Below this entry. 16–18: 5 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 7 products (9%). Below this entry. 20–22: 7 products (9%). This entry sits in this band. 22–24: 3 products (4%). Above this entry. 24–26: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 6 42 every published Electrolyte-drink 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

80 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 20 (78th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

6–8
10 products (13%)
8–10
9 products (11%)
10–12
10 products (13%)
12–14
11 products (14%)
14–16
10 products (13%)
16–18
5 products (6%)
18–20
7 products (9%)
20–22
7 products (9%)
22–24
3 products (4%)
24–26
2 products (3%)
26–28
1 products (1%)
28–30
1 products (1%)
34–36
2 products (3%)
40 and above
2 products (3%)

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 80 Electrolyte-drink 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 85/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 20 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Fructose
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Sodium Citrate
4
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
5
Potassium Citrate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
6
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
7
Magnesium Citrate
8
Natural Flavor
9
Silicon Dioxide
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT
Safe GRAS
10
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
11
Cherry
12
Grape Flavors Only
13
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
14
Ascorbic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
15
Vitamin C
16
Sucralose
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
Avoid Approved
17
Fruit And Vegetable Juice For Color
18
Zinc Aspartate
19
Spirulina Extract For Color
20
Grape Flavor Only

Full Ingredient List

SUGAR, FRUCTOSE, SODIUM CITRATE, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM CITRATE, DEXTROSE, MAGNESIUM CITRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SILICON DIOXIDE, MALTODEXTRIN (CHERRY, GRAPE FLAVORS ONLY), SALT, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), SUCRALOSE, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE FOR COLOR, ZINC ASPARTATE, SPIRULINA EXTRACT FOR COLOR (GRAPE FLAVOR ONLY)

Categories

Electrolyte-drink

High-score cross-brand comparables for Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink

Neighbours outside DripDrop with screening scores in the same high band as Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within DripDrop; these peers cross brands.

Same high-band screening score

Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 20 on 0850042830512).

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Fructose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 20-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Fructose. Open Fructose
  • Compare Juicy Variety Electrolyte Drink's 1 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 0850042830512: 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.