Ingredient intelligence
Parsed Standard vets food, skincare, and personal care products against a strict no-tolerance standard. No artificial flavors. No artificial sweeteners. No natural flavors. No exceptions.
Parsed verdict
Almond Butter
Example brand · Snack category
Ingredients
01
No artificial sweeteners
Aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-K, saccharin, cyclamate — all blocked, no exceptions.
02
No artificial flavors
Synthetic flavor compounds have no place in a clean ingredient list.
03
No natural flavors
The industry loophole most clean brands still use. We don't allow it.
04
No synthetic additives
Preservatives, dyes, PEGs, parabens, synthetic fragrance — all rejected.
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"Natural flavors" is not a flavor. It is an unregulated catch-all that can contain hundreds of undisclosed chemical compounds. Every mainstream clean brand still uses it. Parsed Standard doesn't accept it.
"If you can't pronounce it, look it up.
If it's vague by design,
that's the point."
Regulatory gaps
An ingredient banned in the EU for 20 years may still be in your US grocery store. We document every significant inconsistency across 10 jurisdictions.
See all 18 cases →Erythrosine — banned in US cosmetics for 35 years, still legal in US food
FD&C Red No. 3 / E127
Potassium bromate — legal only in the US among major economies
E924 — banned EU, Canada, China, Japan, India, Brazil
Titanium dioxide — banned as a food additive in EU since 2022
E171 — still GRAS in the US
Six azo dyes require hyperactivity warning in EU — no warning in US
E102, E110, E122, E124, E129, E155
Carrageenan — banned in EU infant formula, GRAS in US infant formula
E407
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