Meal replacement shake
Meal replacement shake by Slimfast has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is NOT-APPLICABLE.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Meal replacements
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Meal replacement shake, 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Meal replacement shake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
Filtered water, protein blend (milk protein concentrate, soy protein isolate), canola and/or sunflower oil, soluble corn fiber, natural flavor, vitamin and mineral blend (magnesium phosphate, sodium ascorbate, ferric orthophosphate, zinc aspartate, DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate, folic acid, potassium iodide, niacinamide, vitamin A palmitate, phytymenadione, copper amino acid chelate, manganese sulfate, cholecalciferol, sodium selenite, calcium D-pantothenate, sodium molybdate, chromium chloride, biotin, cyanocobalamin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin), cellulose gel and gum, potassium phosphate and sodium hexametaphosphate, heavy cream, salt, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, carrageenan. Contains milk and soy.
Product Details
- Brand
- Slimfast
- Barcode
- 0008346957545
- Nutri-Score
- Grade NOT-APPLICABLE
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Meal replacement shake rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Meal replacement shake's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Meal replacement shake's 3.5/5 score be read?
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 3.5/5 average places Meal replacement shake 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.