Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3
Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 appears in 83 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
Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 as the trigger. Open records such as Candy; Candy; Candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 36.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 66% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 83 of 83 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,577 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 83 products listing it (mean slot 7.0). Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 else is usually in the same product as Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3
Across the 83 products on this site that list Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 20.8x more often with Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 83 | 100% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 82 | 98.8% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 74 | 89.2% | 0.9% |
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 Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3
Products Containing Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3
High-volume slice (16 of 83) for products naming Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3:
High-volume peers for Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 beside “Blue 1 & 2”
Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 sits among other busy catalog rows (83 products, mean score 36.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Blue 1 & 2; Brominated Soybean Oil; Canola Oil With Tbhq For Freshness. 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.
Using the Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 evidence
Use the 83-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 next to “Brominated Soybean Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3
How should I read safety signals when Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3? ▼
Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3). 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.