Dehydrated Apple Slices

Dehydrated Apple Slices appears in 36 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

Dehydrated Apple Slices appears in 36 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.

36
catalogued products
#6,225
usage rank of 247,206
18
named brands represented
15%
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.

Dehydrated Apple Slices sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,225 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,225
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
15%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 36 products listing it (mean slot 6.6). Dehydrated Apple Slices usually falls near the top of the captured 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 19.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dehydrated Apple Slices spans 18 named brands and is led by the Cooking helpers group. Start with Apple Fruit Filling or Topping; Apple pie filling; Apple Pie Filling Or Topping when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

18 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 36 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 Dehydrated Apple Slices

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 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dehydrated Apple Slices
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.

Dehydrated Apple Slices vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Dehydrated Apple Slices: 36 listings averaging 96.5/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Dehydrated Apple Slices page

Use the 36-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Dehydrated Apple Slices to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the 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 Dehydrated Apple Slices?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dehydrated Apple Slices, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,225 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dehydrated Apple Slices?

Dehydrated Apple Slices ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dehydrated Apple Slices so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dehydrated Apple Slices appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dehydrated Apple Slices). 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.