Kickstart energizing juice beverage
Kickstart energizing juice beverage by Mountain Dew has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Kickstart energizing juice beverage have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Kickstart energizing juice beverage sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
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
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Kickstart energizing juice beverage: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Mountain Dew
- Barcode
- 0012000162152
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Kickstart energizing juice beverage's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Kickstart energizing juice beverage's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Kickstart energizing juice beverage?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Kickstart energizing juice beverage's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.