Apple Juice

Apple Juice appears in 1,596 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 Juice appears in 1,596 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.

1,596
catalogued products
#485
usage rank of 247,206
507
named brands represented
29%
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.

Apple Juice sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#485 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#485
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
29%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,602 products listing it (mean slot 5.0). Apple Juice usually falls in the upper half of the 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 to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apple Juice spans 507 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Apple Cider; 100% apple cider; 100% apple juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

507 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 957 of 1486 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Apple Juice

Across the 1,596 products on this site that list Apple Juice, 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: -1.3ppRed 40-1.3ppYellow 5: -1.7ppYellow 5-1.7ppCarrageenan: -1.7ppCarrageenan-1.7ppCaramel Coloring: -3.1ppCaramel Coloring-3.1ppBlue 1: -1.9ppBlue 1-1.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Apple Juice products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
-1.3pp
Yellow 5
-1.7pp
Carrageenan
-1.7pp
Caramel Coloring
-3.1pp
Blue 1
-1.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Apple Juice products Share of all products
Red 40 65 4.1% 5.4%
Yellow 5 49 3.1% 4.8%
Carrageenan 44 2.8% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 41 2.6% 5.7%
Blue 1 37 2.3% 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 Apple Juice

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 16 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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Apple Juice
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chicory Root Fiber”)

High-volume peers for Apple Juice: 1,596 products, mean screening score 95.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Chicory Root Fiber”, “Tapioca Flour”, “Shortening”. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Apple Juice evidence

Use the 1,596-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Apple Juice before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Apple Juice with a peer such as “Chicory Root Fiber” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Apple Juice — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Apple Juice?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apple Juice, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#485 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Apple Juice?

Apple Juice ranks in the top decile by product count (#485 of 247,206), appearing in 1,596 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Apple Juice so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple Juice appears in 1,596 products (#485 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Juice). 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.