Nutritional Shake
Nutritional Shake by Heb has 17 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is NOT-APPLICABLE.
- Safety score 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Meal replacements / Low calorie meal replacement / Low calorie ready-to-drink meal replacement
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. 17 of 17 ingredients tracked for Nutritional Shake 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 Nutritional Shake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% 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
Water, milk protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, sunflower oil, coffee, calcium phosphate, cocoa, artificial flavors, inulin, mono - and diglycerides, salt (processed with alkali), magnesium phosphate, natural and cellulose gel, tripotassium phosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, dipotassium phosphate, calcium, sucralose, caffeine, cellulose gum, carrageenan, ferric caseinate, whey protein concentrate, sodium ascorbate, cholecalciferol, biotin, chromium chloride, copper orthophosphate, zinc gluconate, acesulfame potassium, citrate, cyanocobalamin, d-calcium pantothenate, dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, folic acid, manganese sulfate, niacinamide, phylloquinone, potassium iodide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, sodium molybdate, palmitate, sodium selenite, thiamine hydrochloride.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Nutritional Shake: 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: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 17.
Product Details
- Brand
- Heb
- Barcode
- 0041220252725
- Nutri-Score
- Grade NOT-APPLICABLE
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- H-E-B
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Frequently asked questions
How does Nutritional Shake's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Nutritional Shake's 3.9/5 average puts it in the lower 81%, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Nutritional Shake's 3.9/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Nutritional Shake's mapped ingredients average out to 3.9/5, which is 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.