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
Products Containing Apo-carotenal For Color
15 busy labels from the 15 indexed products that list Apo-carotenal For Color:
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.
- Open the product sample for Apo-carotenal For Color and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
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.