Apple Pieces
Apple Pieces appears in 118 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 Pieces appears in 118 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.
- 118
- catalogued products
- #2,786
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Apple Pieces - usage rank #2,786
- Usage rank
- #2,786
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 119 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 119 parsed labels, slot 9.8 on average. Apple Pieces tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apple Pieces spans 43 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple & Raisin Oat Bars; Apple Cinnamon Cereal; Apple Cinnamon Granola when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 105 of 114 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 Pieces
Across the 118 products on this site that list Apple Pieces, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Apple Pieces products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 6.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 6 | 5.1% | 1.3% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 4.2% | 4.5% |
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 Pieces
Products Containing Apple Pieces
High-volume slice (16 of 118) for products naming Apple Pieces:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate”)
High-volume peers for Apple Pieces: 118 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate · Chipotle Puree · Coffee Powder. 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.
What to do with this Apple Pieces record
118 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Apple Pieces are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Apple Pieces before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Apple Pieces with a peer such as “Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Apple Pieces
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Apple Pieces? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apple Pieces, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,786 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apple Pieces? ▼
Apple Pieces ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,786 of 247,206), appearing in 118 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 Pieces so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple Pieces appears in 118 products (#2,786 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Pieces). 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.