Apples And Calcium Ascorbate
Apples And Calcium Ascorbate appears in 95 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 And Calcium Ascorbate appears in 95 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.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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 And Calcium Ascorbate: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,238 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Averaged label depth puts Apples And Calcium Ascorbate in the upper half of the list (39% of list length, mean slot 12.4). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate spans 17 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Apple & Cheddar Cheese With Pepperoni; Apple & Walnut Salad with Chicken; Apple And Grape Snack Tray when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 83 of 95 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 And Calcium Ascorbate
Across the 95 products on this site that list Apples And Calcium Ascorbate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.6x more often with Apples And Calcium Ascorbate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Apples And Calcium Ascorbate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 7 | 7.4% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 6.3% | 2.4% |
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 And Calcium Ascorbate
Products Containing Apples And Calcium Ascorbate
High-volume slice (16 of 95) for products naming Apples And Calcium Ascorbate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Barbecue Sauce”)
Apples And Calcium Ascorbate sits among other busy catalog rows (95 products, mean score 95.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Barbecue Sauce”, “Black Bean”, “Blended Oil”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Apples And Calcium Ascorbate record
Start from Apples And Calcium Ascorbate's 95 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Apples And Calcium Ascorbate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Apples And Calcium Ascorbate next to “Black Bean” (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. 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 Apples And Calcium Ascorbate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Apples And Calcium Ascorbate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,238 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Apples And Calcium Ascorbate? ▼
Apples And Calcium Ascorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Apples And Calcium Ascorbate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Apples And Calcium Ascorbate appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Apples And Calcium Ascorbate). 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.