Tropical Mango by Ghost · GreenveilSaving recent analysis
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VerdictConsider avoidingTropical Mango
Ingredients0Coverage0/0 resolvedDriversNo priority drivers flagged
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Decision lens
Focused on food use. Bias toward food-use coverage and published ingestible context.
Food health
Nutrition profile and additives of concern
Food healthHigh⚠Contains additive of concern- Sodium benzoatePreservative; can form trace benzene (a carcinogen) when combined with ascorbic acid; implicated in child hyperactivity studies.
- SucraloseSweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.
- Acesulfame KSweetener; broadly assessed safe but some consumer-avoidance and limited animal-study questions.
Why this band?How the nutrition, processing, and additive signals combine into the overall food-health band.
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Food healthHigh
- 1nutrition base band "moderate" from nutri-score
- 2ultra-processed (NOVA 4) worsens band by one
- 3final band "high" (health-blend-v1)
Flagged additives
- Sodium benzoate — Preservative; can form trace benzene (a carcinogen) when combined with ascorbic acid; implicated in child hyperactivity studies.
- Sucralose — Sweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.
- Acesulfame K — Sweetener; broadly assessed safe but some consumer-avoidance and limited animal-study questions.
Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
Ingredients (19)
- CARBONATED WATER55%—›
- NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR2.5%—
- CITRIC ACID2.5%—
- L-CARNITINE L-TARTRATE2.5%—›
- TAURINE2.5%—›
- CAFFEINE2.5%—›
- SUCRALOSE2.5%⚠ moderate
- ALPHA-GLYCERYL PHOSPHORYL CHOLINE2.5%—
- SODIUM BENZOATE2.5%⚠ moderate
- PRESERVATIVE2.5%—
- POTASSIUM SORBATE2.5%—
- PRESERVATIVE2.5%—
- ASCORBIC ACID2.5%—
- ACESULFAME POTASSIUM2.5%⚠ low
- COFFEE2.5%—›
- COFFEA ARABICA2.5%—
- FRUIT EXTRACT2.5%—
- NIACINAMIDE2.5%—
- ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS ROOT EXTRACT2.5%—›
- PANAX NOTOGINSENG ROOT EXTRACT2.5%—›
- PYRIDOXAL-5-PHOSPHATE2.5%—›
- METHYLCOBALAMIN2.5%—›
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CARBONATED WATER, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, L-CARNITINE L-TARTRATE, TAURINE, CAFFEINE, SUCRALOSE, ALPHA-GLYCERYL PHOSPHORYL CHOLINE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), ASCORBIC ACID, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, COFFEE (COFFEA ARABICA) FRUIT EXTRACT, NIACINAMIDE, ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS ROOT EXTRACT, PANAX NOTOGINSENG ROOT EXTRACT, PYRIDOXAL-5-PHOSPHATE, METHYLCOBALAMIN
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