Safe

Milk Rusk Biscuits

by Britannia Industries Ltd

Open Food Facts label for barcode 8901063136465 · Britannia Industries Ltd · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 8901063136465 · Serving size 100 g (100 g)

The verdict

Milk Rusk Biscuits by Britannia Industries Ltd scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 32-component record, beginning with Wheat Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Fat. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 32 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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

63136465 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Milk Rusk Biscuits label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 32 ing. REG-SPARSE 6% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 8% LEAD-FLAG Sugar PHOTO-FINISH The Original Bourbon · ±0 BOOK-OFF …136465 · July 2026

2 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sugar). Source sheet 63136465 · 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: The Original Bourbon Creme Biscuit with Chocolate · Nearest score peer is The Original Bourbon Creme Biscuit with Chocolate 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 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.

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. Milk Rusk Biscuits: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Milk Rusk Biscuits100/1002. The Original Bourbon Creme Biscuit with Chocolate: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. The Original Bourbon Crem…100/1003. Nice time cookies: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Nice time cookies100/1004. BRITANNIA Digestive: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. BRITANNIA Digestive100/1005. Digestive Original: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Digestive Original100/100
High-band neighbours for Milk Rusk Biscuits (100/100) outside Britannia Industries Ltd.
Chart values as text

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

Milk Rusk Biscuits
100/100
The Original Bourbon Creme Biscuit with Chocolate
100/100
Nice time cookies
100/100
BRITANNIA Digestive
100/100
Digestive Original
100/100

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. Milk Rusk Biscuits scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products

Milk Rusk Biscuits lists 32 ingredients on its label

32 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages 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

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 32 (92nd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

WHEAT FLOUR (72%), SUGAR, VEGETABLE FAT (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF PALM OIL OR SESAME OIL), MILK & SKIM MILK POWDER (4%), YEAST, BUTTER (MILK) (1.5%). DRY GLUTEN (WHEAT), SALT, FUNGAL ALPHA AMYLASE (ENZYME), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES OF FATTY ACIDS AND SODIUM STEAROYL 2-LACTYLATE (EMULSIFIERS). CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK, MILK PRODUCTS AND SESAME MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS, TREE NUTS AND SULPHITES INGREDIENTS: FARINE DE BLÉ (72%), SUCRE, HUILES VÉGÉTALES (CONTIENT UNE OU PLUSIEURS PARMIS HUILE DE PALME OU DE HUILE DE SÉSAME), LAIT ET LAIT ÉCRÉMÉ EN POUDRE (4%), LEVURE, BEURRE (LAIT) (1.5%), GLUTEN SEC (BLE), SEL, ALPHA-AMYLASE FONGIQUE (ENZYME), MONO ET DIGLYCERIDES D'ACIDES GRAS ET SODIUM STEAROYL 2 LACTYLATE (EMULSIFIANT). CONTIENT: BLE, LAIT, PRODUITS LAITIERS ET SÉSAME PEUT CONTENIR ARACHIDES, NOIX ET SULFITES

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Snacks Cereals and potatoes Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cereals and their products Breads Rusks

High-score cross-brand comparables for Milk Rusk Biscuits

Neighbours outside Britannia Industries Ltd with screening scores in the same high band as Milk Rusk Biscuits (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Britannia Industries Ltd; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sugar is the first flagged ingredient selected from Milk Rusk Biscuits's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sugar. Open Sugar
  • Compare Milk Rusk Biscuits's 0 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 8901063136465: 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.