Avoid

Merry Crunch Bar

by Chocomize Inc.

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0855249005282 · Chocomize Inc. · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0855249005282 · Serving size 0.7 ONZ (20 g)

The verdict

Merry Crunch Bar by Chocomize Inc. scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 37 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 37-component record, beginning with 54% Belgian Dark Chocolate, Unsweetened Chocolate, Sugar. 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.

0/100
Avoid safety score
4
Many flagged · of 37 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

8/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

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.

49005282 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Merry Crunch Bar label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 4 flagged LEN-DENSE 37 ing. REG-SPARSE 27% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 12% LEAD-FLAG Red 3 PHOTO-FINISH Arizona snack company, · ±0 BOOK-OFF …005282 · July 2026

10 of 37 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 49005282 · 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: Arizona snack company, brite crawlers · Nearest score peer is Arizona snack company, brite crawlers 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 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.

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. Merry Crunch Bar: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Merry Crunch Bar0/1002. Arizona snack company, brite crawlers: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Arizona snack company, br…0/1003. Racine danish kringles, kringle, cranberry-nut: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Racine danish kringles, k…0/1004. Sprinkles, Rainbow: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Sprinkles, Rainbow0/1005. Market pantry, swift macaroni & cheese cups: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Market pantry, swift maca…0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Merry Crunch Bar (0/100 on 37 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Merry Crunch Bar
0/100
Arizona snack company, brite crawlers
0/100
Racine danish kringles, kringle, cranberry-nut
0/100
Sprinkles, Rainbow
0/100
Market pantry, swift macaroni & cheese cups
0/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Merry Crunch Bar scores 86.1 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Merry Crunch Bar lists 37 ingredients on its label

37 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 37 (88th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 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 81,477 Snacks 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 (4 flagged of 37 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

54% belgian dark chocolate (unsweetened chocolate; sugar; cocoa; soy lecithin (emulsifier); natural vanilla flavor), chocolate crisp pearls (chocolate [sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, milk sugar, dry cream, whey, natural vanilla flavor], crisped cereals [wheat flour, sugar, wheat malt flour, starch (wheat), rising agent: sodium bicarbonate, vegetable fat (soy, palm, rapeseed), salt, natural flavor], sugar, glucose syrup [wheat], modified potato starch), sprinkles (sugar, corn starch, confectioners glaze, carnauba wax, fd&c yellow 5, fd&c red 3, fd&c blue 1, fd&c red 40, fd&c yellow 6 and fd&c blue 2).

Other products containing 54% Belgian Dark Chocolate

54% Belgian Dark Chocolate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Cocoa and its products Confectioneries Chocolate candies

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Merry Crunch Bar

Neighbours outside Chocomize Inc. in the same lower screening band as Merry Crunch Bar (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Chocomize Inc.; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Merry Crunch Bar's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 37-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
  • Compare Merry Crunch Bar's 4 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 0855249005282: 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.