Apple Sauce
Apple Sauce appears in 86 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 Sauce appears in 86 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.
- 86
- catalogued products
- #3,489
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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 Sauce - usage rank #3,489
- Usage rank
- #3,489
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 35 others that also appear in exactly 86 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Apple Sauce in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 14.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apple Sauce spans 35 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Abe's apple cider; Abe's, Mini-Muppins, Apple Cider; Ajinomoto, bbq seasoned beef with vegetable on sticky rice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
35 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 67 of 84 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 Sauce
Across the 86 products on this site that list Apple Sauce, 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 Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 5.8% | 5.7% |
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 Sauce
Products Containing Apple Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 86) for products naming Apple Sauce:
High-volume peers for Apple Sauce beside “Artificial Chicken Flavor”
Apple Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (86 products, mean score 97.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Artificial Chicken Flavor”, “Basil Leaf”, “Organic Raw Buckwheat Groats”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Sauce record
Use the 86-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Apple Sauce and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Apple Sauce? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apple Sauce, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,489 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apple Sauce? ▼
Apple Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,489 of 247,206), appearing in 86 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apple Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apple Sauce appears in 86 products (#3,489 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apple Sauce). 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.