Apple
Apple appears in 2,501 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
Apple appears in 2,501 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.
- 2,501
- catalogued products
- #345
- usage rank of 247,206
- 767
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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: 530 of 2501 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1-step smoothie; 100% cold-pressed juice; 100% cranberry juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Apple itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
530 of 2,501 linked records have some flagged component
All 2377 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.
Apple: top-decile catalog footprint (#345 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #345
- 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
- 33%
- Averaged label depth puts Apple in the upper half of the list (33% of list length, mean slot 9.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Apple
Across the 2,501 products on this site that list Apple, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.6x more often with Apple than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Apple products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 209 | 8.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 194 | 7.8% | 4.2% |
| Sucralose | 150 | 6% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 131 | 5.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 125 | 5% | 3.4% |
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 Apple
Products Containing Apple
16 busy labels from the 2,501 indexed products that list Apple:
High-volume peers for Apple beside “Sodium Tripolyphosphate”
High-volume peers for Apple: 2,501 products, mean screening score 91.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Sodium Tripolyphosphate; Potassium Lactate; Cherries. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Apple page
Start from Apple's 2,501 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Apple before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Apple next to “Potassium Lactate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Apple 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 Apple. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apple? ▼
Apple ranks in the top decile by product count (#345 of 247,206), appearing in 2,501 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apple so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple appears in 2,501 products (#345 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple). 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.