Apple Nuggets

Apple Nuggets appears in 3 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 Nuggets appears in 3 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.

3
catalogued products
#35,091
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
21%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 16-1 Link-Apple And Cinnamon Breakfast Sausage; Apple cinnamon waffles, apple cinnamon; Apple Pie Cookies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Apple Nuggets itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 3 linked records have some flagged component

All 3 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.

Upper-half catalog placement for Apple Nuggets (#35,091)

Usage rank
#35,091
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
21%
Mean relative depth 21% across 3 parsed labels, slot 6.7 on average. Apple Nuggets tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

Products Containing Apple Nuggets

Every indexed product currently listing Apple Nuggets (3 total):

Download these 3 product rows (CSV) 3 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Parallel catalog profiles to Apple Nuggets

Peer axes for Apple Nuggets: 3 products · mean score 91.7/100.

Similar mean product score

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

Next steps from the Apple Nuggets page

3 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Apple Nuggets 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.

Questions readers ask about Apple Nuggets

Does Apple Nuggets 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 Nuggets. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Apple Nuggets show up across the catalog?

Apple Nuggets sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 3 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Apple Nuggets so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Apple Nuggets. Its near the top of the captured list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Nuggets). 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.