Apple Purée
Apple Purée appears in 29 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 Purée appears in 29 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.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,050
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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 Purée: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,050 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,050
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Averaged label depth puts Apple Purée near the top of the captured list (23% of list length, mean slot 6.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apple Purée spans 19 named brands and is led by the Baby foods group. Start with Apple Dinos; Apple Fruity Bakes; Apple Pumpkin when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 27 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.
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 Purée
Products Containing Apple Purée
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 29 indexed products containing Apple Purée:
High-volume peers for Apple Purée
Top-decile company for Apple Purée: 29 listings averaging 97.5/100.
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 Purée evidence
29 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Apple Purée are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Apple Purée before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Apple Purée — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Apple Purée? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apple Purée, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,050 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apple Purée? ▼
Apple Purée ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Baby foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apple Purée so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple Purée appears in 29 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Purée). 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.