Added To Maintain Freshness And Color
Added To Maintain Freshness And Color appears in 37 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 And Color appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Added To Maintain Freshness And Color - usage rank #6,126
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 37 products listing it (mean slot 15.6). Added To Maintain Freshness And Color usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Added To Maintain Freshness And Color spans 10 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple bleu pecan salad; Apple caramel bites; Apple Tray when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
10 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 37 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 And Color
Across the 37 products on this site that list Added To Maintain Freshness And Color, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 9.6x more often with Added To Maintain Freshness And Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Added To Maintain Freshness And Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 13.5% | 1.4% |
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 And Color
Products Containing Added To Maintain Freshness And Color
16 busy labels from the 37 indexed products that list Added To Maintain Freshness And Color:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Added To Maintain Freshness And Color sits among other busy catalog rows (37 products, mean score 99.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Added To Maintain Freshness And Color evidence
Start from Added To Maintain Freshness And Color's 37 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Added To Maintain Freshness And Color and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
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 And Color? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Added To Maintain Freshness And Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Added To Maintain Freshness And Color? ▼
Added To Maintain Freshness And Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Added To Maintain Freshness And Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Added To Maintain Freshness And Color appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Added To Maintain Freshness And Color). 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.