Added To Stabilize Color
Added To Stabilize Color appears in 135 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 Stabilize Color appears in 135 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.
- 135
- catalogued products
- #2,527
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 97%
- 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 Stabilize Color sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,527 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,527
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 19 others that also appear in exactly 135 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 97%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 135 products listing it (mean slot 11.1). Added To Stabilize Color 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Added To Stabilize Color spans 36 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with Bean dip platter with salsa; Black olives; Black Ripe Chopped Olives when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 97 of 120 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 Stabilize Color
Across the 135 products on this site that list Added To Stabilize 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.2x more often with Added To Stabilize Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Added To Stabilize Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 5.2% | 2.4% |
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 Stabilize Color
Products Containing Added To Stabilize Color
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 135 indexed products containing Added To Stabilize Color:
High-volume peers for Added To Stabilize Color beside “As A Processing Aid”
High-volume peers for Added To Stabilize Color: 135 products, mean screening score 98/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: As A Processing Aid · Organic Baby Lettuces · Blue No. 1. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Added To Stabilize Color evidence
135 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Added To Stabilize Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Added To Stabilize Color and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Stabilize Color? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Added To Stabilize Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,527 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Added To Stabilize Color? ▼
Added To Stabilize Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,527 of 247,206), appearing in 135 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Added To Stabilize Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Added To Stabilize Color appears in 135 products (#2,527 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Added To Stabilize 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.