Product Insight: Kickstart energizing juice beverage
Kickstart energizing juice beverage by Mountain Dew is tracked in PlainIngredients with 3 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4 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 2 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
CONTAINS 526 JUICE ving Size 1 Can mount Per Serving Calories 80 % Daily Value: 0% 7%) , Total Fat 0g Sodium 180mg mai Carbohydrate 21g 7% Sugars 20g Protein Og Vitamin C Niacin Vitamin B6 Pantotheni Acid 100% 80% 80%) 60% Not a sign ant source of calories fr fat, saturatedES tat, trans 1 .holesterol. dietary fib vitamin A, calcium a on. *Percent i / Values are based on a 000 calorie diet. CARBONATED V. TER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP WHITE GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATE, CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL LAVOR SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE (TO PROTERT FLAVOR), GUM ARABIC, POTASSIUM SORBATE PRESERVES FRESHNESS), ASCORBIC ACID VITAMIN C CAFFINE, SDU CE. SU UCRALOSE, GLYCEROL ESTER OF ROSIN, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVES FRESHNESS), NIACINAMIDE CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA TO PROTECT FLAVOR), SUCROSE ACETATE SOBUTYRATE, YELLOW 6, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, ELLOW 5, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE CVITAMIN B6) CAFFEINE CONTENT: 90mg/16 fl oz. MOUNTAINDEW.COM
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
- Mountain Dew
- Barcode
- 0012000162152
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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