Root Beer by Stewart's Fountain Classics, Stewart's, Canada Dry, Motts · Greenveil
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Verdict Consider avoidingRoot Beer
Ingredients 0 Coverage 0/0 resolved Drivers No priority drivers flagged
Decision lens
Decision lens Focused on food use. Bias toward food-use coverage and published ingestible context.
Overview Ingredients Regulation Alternatives Food health
Nutrition profile and additives of concern Food health Critical ⚠ Contains additive of concern Ammonia caramel Caramel colour class III; may contain 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), an animal carcinogen. Sodium benzoate Preservative; can form trace benzene (a carcinogen) when combined with ascorbic acid; implicated in child hyperactivity studies. Why this band? How the nutrition, processing, and additive signals combine into the overall food-health band.
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Critical
1 nutrition base band "critical" from nutri-score 2 ultra-processed (NOVA 4) worsens band by one 3 final band "critical" (health-blend-v1) Flagged additives
Ammonia caramel — Caramel colour class III; may contain 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), an animal carcinogen. Sodium benzoate — Preservative; can form trace benzene (a carcinogen) when combined with ascorbic acid; implicated in child hyperactivity studies. Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
Ingredients (11) Carbonated water 55% — › Cane sugar 19% — › Caramel colour 13% — Sodium Benzoate 6.5% ⚠ moderate Natural flavour 2.5% — Artificial flavour 2% — Citric acid 1% — Quillaia extract 0.5% — Acacia gum 0.25% — Saponin 0.25% — › Ammonia caramel (E150C) ⚠ moderate Show original Carbonated water, Cane sugar, Caramel colour, Sodium Benzoate, Natural flavour, Artificial flavour, Citric acid, Quillaia extract, Acacia gum, Saponin
Decision read
Probably skip for food use This read is based on the product's overall critical safety band; no per-ingredient chemical concern data is published for it yet.
Driven by the product's overall food/cosmetic safety band, not per-ingredient chemical concern. Bias toward food-use coverage and published ingestible context.
No ingredient drivers are available for this product.
