Product Insight: Flintstones Complete Vitamins
Flintstones Complete Vitamins by Bayer is tracked in PlainIngredients with 14 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.1 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 14 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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
calcium carbonate, sorbitol, mannitol, sodium ascorbate, fructose, ferrous sulfate, hydrogenated vegetable oil (soy), carageenan, citric acid, less than 2% of: beta - carotene, biotin, cholecalciferol, cupric oxide, cyanobalamin, d-calcium pantothenate, dl-alpha-tocopherol acetate, fd&c blue #2 aluminum lake, fd&c red #40 aluminum lake, fd&c yellow #6 aluminum lake, folic acid, gelatin, magnesium stearate, maltodextrin, natural & artificial flavors, niacinamide, potassium iodide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, retinyl acetate, riboflavin, silicon dioixide, soy lecithin, sucralose, thiamine mononitrate, zinc oxide.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Bayer
- Barcode
- 0016500576082
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Amazon
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