Annatto For Color
Annatto For Color appears in 289 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 For Color appears in 289 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.
- 289
- catalogued products
- #1,517
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
74.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Annatto For Color as the trigger. Open records such as Actric blasters crispy bars; Arctic blasters toffee bar; Arctic zero, frozen dessert, orange cream and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 83% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
74.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 279 of 287 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Annatto For Color - usage rank #1,517
- Usage rank
- #1,517
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 289 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 83%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 289 products listing it (mean slot 22.9). Annatto For 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.
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 else is usually in the same product as Annatto For Color
Across the 289 products on this site that list Annatto For 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 15.7x more often with Annatto For Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Annatto For Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 204 | 70.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 89 | 30.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 81 | 28% | 1.3% |
| Red 40 | 32 | 11.1% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 22 | 7.6% | 4.2% |
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 For Color
Products Containing Annatto For Color
16 busy labels from the 289 indexed products that list Annatto For Color:
High-volume peers for Annatto For Color beside “Bromelain”
Annatto For Color sits among other busy catalog rows (289 products, mean score 85.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bromelain · Ferrous Lactate · Natural Fragrance. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Annatto For Color page
Start from Annatto For Color's 289 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Annatto For Color and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Annatto For Color with a peer such as “Bromelain” 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Annatto For Color
How should I read safety signals when Annatto For Color sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
74.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Annatto For Color is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Annatto For Color? ▼
Annatto For Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,517 of 247,206), appearing in 289 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Annatto For Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Annatto For Color appears in 289 products (#1,517 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Annatto For 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.