Apo-carotenal For Color

Apo-carotenal For Color appears in 15 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

Apo-carotenal For Color appears in 15 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.

15
catalogued products
#11,449
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
100%
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.

Apo-carotenal For Color: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,449 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#11,449
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
100%
Mean relative depth 100% across 15 parsed labels, slot 13.8 on average. Apo-carotenal For Color tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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: Apo-carotenal For Color spans 4 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Aged Cheddar Gourmet Spreadable Cheese; Cheddar & bacon; Dairy Food Usa, Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese Spread, Cheddar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

4 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 15 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 15 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 Apo-carotenal For Color

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Apo-carotenal For Color
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Apo-carotenal For Color

Top-decile company for Apo-carotenal For Color: 15 listings averaging 99/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Apo-carotenal For Color evidence

15 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Apo-carotenal For Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

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 Apo-carotenal For Color?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apo-carotenal For Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,449 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Apo-carotenal For Color?

Apo-carotenal For Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Apo-carotenal For Color so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apo-carotenal For Color appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apo-carotenal 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.