Amaranth
Amaranth appears in 785 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
Amaranth appears in 785 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.
- 785
- catalogued products
- #771
- usage rank of 247,206
- 224
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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 Amaranth - usage rank #771
- Usage rank
- #771
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 785 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 785 parsed labels, slot 12.5 on average. Amaranth tends to sit in the upper 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 3.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Amaranth spans 224 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 12 grain bread; 14 Grain Bread; 15 Grain & Seed Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
224 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 593 of 747 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 Amaranth
Across the 785 products on this site that list Amaranth, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 7x more often with Amaranth than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Amaranth products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 11 | 1.4% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 1.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 0.6% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 5 | 0.6% | 0.5% |
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 Amaranth
Products Containing Amaranth
16 busy labels from the 785 indexed products that list Amaranth:
Amaranth vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Amaranth: 785 products, mean screening score 99.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Coconut Water”, “Red Cabbage”, “Bleached Enriched Flour”. 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 Amaranth evidence
785 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Amaranth are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Amaranth and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Amaranth with a peer such as “Organic Coconut Water” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Amaranth
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Amaranth? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Amaranth, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#771 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Amaranth? ▼
Amaranth ranks in the top decile by product count (#771 of 247,206), appearing in 785 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 Amaranth so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Amaranth appears in 785 products (#771 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Amaranth). 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.