Acerola
Acerola appears in 101 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Acerola appears in 101 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 101
- catalogued products
- #3,116
- usage rank of 247,206
- 47
- named brands represented
- 53%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Acerola sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,116 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,116
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 101 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Mean relative depth 53% across 101 parsed labels, slot 21.2 on average. Acerola tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Acerola spans 47 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Ageless Male MAX; ALL-IN-ONE NUTRITION SHAKE; Amazonia, Coconut Water + White Tea when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
47 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 76 of 86 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Acerola
Products Containing Acerola
16 busy labels from the 101 indexed products that list Acerola:
High-volume peers for Acerola beside “Organic Arborio Rice”
High-volume peers for Acerola: 101 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Arborio Rice; Chile; Chilli Powder. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Acerola page
Start from Acerola's 101 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Acerola to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Acerola — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Acerola? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Acerola, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,116 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acerola? ▼
Acerola ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,116 of 247,206), appearing in 101 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Acerola so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acerola appears in 101 products (#3,116 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acerola). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.