Aloe vera
Aloe vera carries a source-backed screening score of 1/5 and appears in 64 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Aloe vera appears in 64 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Avoid.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 64
- catalogued products
- #4,211
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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 Aloe vera - usage rank #4,211
- Usage rank
- #4,211
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 64 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 64 parsed labels, slot 12.0 on average. Aloe vera tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Aloe vera spans 40 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with All Natural Aloe Vera Bite Sized Pieces; Aloe Vera in Pire Water Wild Berry; Aloe Vera Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
40 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 49 of 61 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.
Function
Flavoring
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 Aloe vera
Products Containing Aloe vera
16 busy labels from the 64 indexed products that list Aloe vera:
Aloe vera vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Aloe vera: 64 products, mean screening score 97.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Acidophilus”, “Ail”, “Arabic”. 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.
Next steps from the Aloe vera page
Start from Aloe vera's 64 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Aloe vera before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Aloe vera? ▼
Aloe vera has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 1/5. CSPI rates it "Avoid." With only 7.8% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Aloe vera? ▼
Aloe vera ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,211 of 247,206), appearing in 64 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Aloe vera do in food? ▼
Aloe vera is recorded as a flavoring in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Aloe vera). 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.