Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate)
by Ensure
Open Food Facts label for barcode 17087681 · Ensure · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) by Ensure scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 6 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 6-component label led by Folate, 60mcg Folic Acid, Potassium Citrate; 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 6 analyzed
- 17087681
- 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
100/100
Grade A+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
N/A
NOVA food-processing classification
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.
17087681 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) label screening desk
1 of 6 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Citrate). Source sheet 17087681 · 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: Triple boost protein · Nearest score peer is Triple boost protein 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.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) lists 6 ingredients on its label
6 2nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 2% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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
Folate (60mcg Folic Acid) AND MINERALS: POTASSIUM CITRATE, MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE Nutrition Fac Doctor MCOMMENDED Serving size Amount per serving Calories BRAND 1 botte Total Fat 6g S DV' Saturated Fat 1g Trans Fat 0g 8% Sodium 210r Polyunsaturated Fat 29 Monounsaturated Fat 39 Cholesterol <5mg Dletary Fider Total Sugas 1 Vitamin D Dmeg Iron 4.5mg <2% Protein 9 25% Potassium 470my 35% Vitamin A 25%-Catimcoty Thiamin 25% Vilamin Be 25% 25% 25% 25% Riboflavin 25% Niacin Zinc 25% Copper •Chloride 10% Chromium 30% • Selenium t in a serving of l advice PHATE CITRATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE MANGANESE SULFATE, AMINE HYDRO al
Other products containing 60mcg Folic Acid
60mcg Folic Acid is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate)
Neighbours outside Ensure with screening scores in the same high band as Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ensure; 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).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (6 on 17087681).
Check the compact label closely
Check the compact label closely
Ensure Original nutrition shake (Milk Chocolate) has a shorter ingredient list than 98% of its Meals category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.
- Start with Potassium Citrate and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
- Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
- Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 17087681: 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.