Locarb energy drink by Monster, Monster Energy Company · Greenveil
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Monster, Monster Energy Company MM Monster, Monster Energy Company
Verdict Consider avoidingLocarb energy drink
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 High ⚠ Contains additive of concern Benzoic acid Preservative; benzene-formation potential with ascorbic acid; intolerance reactions. Sucralose Sweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate. Why this band? How the nutrition, processing, and additive signals combine into the overall food-health band.
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High
1 nutrition base band "moderate" from nutri-score 2 ultra-processed (NOVA 4) worsens band by one 3 final band "high" (health-blend-v1) Flagged additives
Benzoic acid — Preservative; benzene-formation potential with ascorbic acid; intolerance reactions. Sucralose — Sweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate. Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
Ingredients (15) Carbonated water 53.333333333333336% — › Glucose 23.333333333333332% — › Citric acid 11.666666666666664% — Natural flavors 2.5% — Taurine 2.5% — › Sodium citrate 2.5% — › Color added 2.0833333333333286% — Panax ginseng extract 1.0416666666666643% — Caffeine 0.5208333333333286% — › Sorbic acid 0.2604166666666643% — Preservative 0.2604166666666643% — Sucralose 0.1302083333333286% ⚠ moderate Benzoic acid 0.0651041666666643% ⚠ moderate Preservative 0.0651041666666643% — L-carnitine l-tartrate 0.032552083333328596% — › Niacianamide 0.016276041666664298% — Vitamin b3 0.016276041666664298% — Acesulfame 0.016276041666657193% — › Show original Carbonated water, glucose, citric acid, natural flavors, taurine, sodium citrate, color added, panax ginseng extract, caffeine, sorbic acid (preservative), sucralose, benzoic acid (preservative), l-carnitine l-tartrate, niacianamide (vit. b3), acesulfame
Decision read
Probably skip for food use This read is based on the product's overall high 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.
