Apple Dessert
Apple Dessert appears in 7 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 Dessert appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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
85.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Apple Dessert as the trigger. Open records such as Spicy classic fried tender dark chicken portions with home-style mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables - includes an apple dessert, spicy classic fried chicken; Country fried beef steak fritter in gravy, mashed potatoes, corn and an apple dessert, country fried steak; hungry man country fried chicken and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 77% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
85.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7 of 7 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.
Apple Dessert: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7 products listing it (mean slot 53.6). Apple Dessert 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.
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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Dessert
Products Containing Apple Dessert
High-volume slice (7 of 7) for products naming Apple Dessert:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Apple Dessert: 7 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Apple Dessert evidence
Use the 7-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 Apple Dessert to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Apple Dessert — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Apple Dessert sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
85.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Apple Dessert is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apple Dessert? ▼
Apple Dessert ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apple Dessert so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple Dessert appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Dessert). 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.