Tropical Lime
Tropical Lime by Mountain Dew Baja Blast 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
Tropical Lime draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Tropical Lime 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
total fat og sodium 80mg total carbohydrate 62g 23% total sugars 62g includes 62g added sugars 124% protein og mtn be 0% baja blast 3% not a significant source of other nutrients. *% dv = % daily value - carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), caffeine, gum arabic, sodium s citrate, calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor sucrose acetate isobutyrate, yellow 5, blue 1. bottled under the author purchase ny 10572 calleine contene: comb 104m-222-0007-j0
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tropical Lime: 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 Baja Blast
- Barcode
- 0012000172663
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Tropical Lime's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Tropical Lime's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Tropical Lime's 4/5 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 4/5 average places Tropical Lime 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.