Added To Maintain Freshness
Added To Maintain Freshness appears in 235 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
Added To Maintain Freshness appears in 235 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.
- 235
- catalogued products
- #1,761
- usage rank of 247,206
- 58
- named brands represented
- 88%
- 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.
Added To Maintain Freshness sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,761 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,761
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 235 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 88%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 235 products listing it (mean slot 16.9). Added To Maintain Freshness usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Added To Maintain Freshness spans 58 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, chewy granola bars, blueberry vanilla; 365 everyday value, coconut craze granola; 365 everyday value, organic crunchy cinnamon squares cereal when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
58 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 173 of 234 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Added To Maintain Freshness
Across the 235 products on this site that list Added To Maintain Freshness, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Added To Maintain Freshness products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 16 | 6.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 3.8% | 5.7% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
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 Added To Maintain Freshness
Products Containing Added To Maintain Freshness
16 busy labels from the 235 indexed products that list Added To Maintain Freshness:
Added To Maintain Freshness vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Added To Maintain Freshness: 235 listings averaging 99/100. Nearest count peers include “Celery Extract”, “Diluted With Water To 5% Acidity”, “Habanero Pepper”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Added To Maintain Freshness record
Start from Added To Maintain Freshness's 235 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Added To Maintain Freshness before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Added To Maintain Freshness next to “Diluted With Water To 5% Acidity” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Added To Maintain Freshness? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Added To Maintain Freshness, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,761 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Added To Maintain Freshness? ▼
Added To Maintain Freshness ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,761 of 247,206), appearing in 235 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Added To Maintain Freshness so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Added To Maintain Freshness appears in 235 products (#1,761 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Added To Maintain Freshness). 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.