Cran Tropical

Cran Tropical: 4.3/5 ingredient safety

Cran Tropical by Ocean Spray has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Cran Tropical draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Cran Tropical sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

4.3
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.3 out of 5
Based on 3 tracked ingredients
3
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

filtered water, sugar, cranberry juice (water, cranberry juice concentrate), apple juice (water, apple juice concentrate), mango juice (water, mango juice concentrate), natural guava and passionfruit flavor with other natural flavors, fumaric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), citric acid, vegetable concentrate for color, gum arabic, ester gum.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cran Tropical: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Barcode
0031200027702
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Cran Tropical's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4.3/5, Cran Tropical sits ahead of 62% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.3/5 rating on Cran Tropical?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.3/5 average places Cran Tropical in the Low Risk tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.