Apples
Apples appears in 5,177 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
Apples appears in 5,177 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.
- 5,177
- catalogued products
- #205
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,143
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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.
Apples sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#205 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #205
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Averaged label depth puts Apples near the top of the captured list (22% of list length, mean slot 6.4). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apples spans 1143 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1 Apple + 12 Strawberries Fruit Bar; 100% Apple Cider; 100% apple cider when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1143 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2921 of 4761 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 Apples
Across the 5,177 products on this site that list Apples, 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 Apples products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 363 | 7% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 345 | 6.7% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 234 | 4.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 178 | 3.4% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 121 | 2.3% | 4.8% |
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 Apples
Products Containing Apples
High-volume slice (16 of 5,177) for products naming Apples:
Apples vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Apples sits among other busy catalog rows (5,177 products, mean score 94.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Whey Powder; Cottonseed Oil; Carob Bean Gum. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Apples page
Use the 5,177-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Apples and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Apples next to “Cottonseed Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Apples
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Apples? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apples, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#205 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apples? ▼
Apples ranks in the top decile by product count (#205 of 247,206), appearing in 5,177 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apples so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apples appears in 5,177 products (#205 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apples). 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.