Diet Soda, Orange
Diet Soda, Orange by Spartan has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.8 out of 5, 1.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Beverages / Carbonated drinks / Sodas
How This Score Is Built
Diet Soda, Orange 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). 4 of its 4 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 Diet Soda, Orange sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.8 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Brominated Vegetable Oil - Safety score: 1/5
- Potassium Benzoate - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
Carbonated water, citric acid, potassium benzoate (preservative), aspartame, natural flavor, gum acacia, acesulfame potassium, yellow 6, glycerol ester of wood rosin, sunflower oil, brominated vegetable oil, red 40.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Diet Soda, Orange: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 2.8/5.
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- Caffeine free fruit punch artificially flavored soda, fruit punch Δ 0.0 pts · Food Club, Topco Associates Inc. 2.8/54 additives
- Canadian Bacon Δ 0.0 pts · Black Forest, Land O'Frost Inc. 2.8/54 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
Product Details
- Brand
- Spartan
- Barcode
- 0011213024202
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Diet Soda, Orange above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Diet Soda, Orange's 2.8/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2.8/5 rating on Diet Soda, Orange?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Diet Soda, Orange's 2.8/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.