About this list
897 foods from 289 brands across 19 aisles, the products most US shoppers actually see, each read for the same five things.
What it is for
Plenty of shoppers now look for synthetic dyes, corn syrup, artificial sweeteners or seed oils on a label, and the “MAHA” shorthand for those concerns has become common. Reading the back of every box in the store is slow. This list does the reading for the best-known foods and, for each one, points to others on the same shelf whose labels name fewer of them.
Not affiliated with anyone
The site is independent. It is not run by, endorsed by or connected to any government agency, political campaign or movement, or food company, and it takes no money from any of them. The name describes the standards the list checks; it is not a claim to speak for anyone who uses the phrase.
Who runs it
A two-person team that builds reference sites from public data, in their own time. There is no lab, no dietitian on staff and no testing: everything here is read from labels the makers publish. Nothing on the site is advice about what anyone should eat.
Why pass or fail, and no grades
A letter grade or a score would mean deciding how much one ingredient matters against another, and that is an opinion. Whether a label names Red 40 is a fact you can check. So each food gets five marks and a count, and the method says exactly which words produce each mark.
Keeping it current
Data last updated November 11, 2026. Labels change; when a maker’s page shows a newer list than the one here, the food is re-read from it. Send a label that has changed.