Annatto Color
Annatto Color appears in 2,548 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
Annatto Color appears in 2,548 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.
- 2,548
- catalogued products
- #342
- usage rank of 247,206
- 527
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 814 of 2548 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 100% natural semi-sharp cheddar cheese, cheddar; 12 Slider Potato Rolls (1) to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Annatto Color itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
814 of 2,548 linked records have some flagged component
All 2496 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Annatto Color - usage rank #342
- Usage rank
- #342
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 2,548 parsed labels, slot 18.6 on average. Annatto Color tends to sit in the lower 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 else is usually in the same product as Annatto Color
Across the 2,548 products on this site that list Annatto 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.2x more often with Annatto Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Annatto Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 365 | 14.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 240 | 9.4% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 147 | 5.8% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 126 | 4.9% | 1.3% |
| Red 40 | 71 | 2.8% | 5.4% |
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 Annatto Color
Products Containing Annatto Color
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,548 indexed products containing Annatto Color:
High-volume peers for Annatto Color beside “Biotin”
High-volume peers for Annatto Color: 2,548 products, mean screening score 93.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Biotin · Caramel · Calcium Pantothenate. 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.
What to do with this Annatto Color record
Use the 2,548-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Annatto Color to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Annatto Color — common follow-ups
Does Annatto Color carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Annatto Color. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Annatto Color? ▼
Annatto Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#342 of 247,206), appearing in 2,548 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Annatto Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Annatto Color appears in 2,548 products (#342 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Annatto 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.