Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor
by Huel
Open Food Facts label for barcode 5060925290479 · Huel · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor by Huel scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 29-component label is layered, beginning with Oat Flour, Pea Protein, Tapioca Starch. 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 29 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 5060925290479
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
25290479 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor label screening desk
13 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 25290479 · 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: Blood Orange · Nearest score peer is Blood Orange 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 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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor scores 8.6 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor lists 29 ingredients on its label
29 49th percentile a longer ingredient list than 49% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 127 products (1%)
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- 209 products (2%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 315 products (3%)
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- 412 products (4%)
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- 574 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 443 products (4%)
- 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
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 29 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Oat Flour, Pea Protein, Tapioca Starch, Ground Flaxseed, Cocoa Powder, Natural Flavors, Potassium Citrate, Brown Rice Protein, Potassium Chloride, Xanthan Gum, Sunflower Oil Powder, Calcium Carbonate, Corn Starch, Salt, Sodium Chloride, Sucralose, L-Ascorbic Acid, Maltodextrin, DL-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Acetate, Niacinamide, Ergocalciferol, Calcium-D-Pantothenate, Folate, Potassium Iodide, Cyanocobalamin, Phylloquinone, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin
Other products containing Calcium-d-pantothenate
Calcium-d-pantothenate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 40 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor
Neighbours outside Huel with screening scores in the same high band as Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Huel; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 29 on 5060925290479).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (29 on 5060925290479).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 29-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Huel Essential, Chocolate Flavor'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 5060925290479: 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.