As Color
As Color appears in 173 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
As Color appears in 173 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.
- 173
- catalogued products
- #2,133
- usage rank of 247,206
- 73
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 80 of 173 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% juice; 7-eleven fresh to go, football iced sugar cookie; Ahold, simply enjoy, pomegranate lemonade - sparkling beverage to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to As Color itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
80 of 173 linked records have some flagged component
All 173 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
As Color: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,133 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,133
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 173 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Averaged label depth puts As Color near the end of the captured list (78% of list length, mean slot 17.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as As Color
Across the 173 products on this site that list As Color, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 17x more often with As Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of As Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 62 | 35.8% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 41 | 23.7% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 31 | 17.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 31 | 17.9% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 24 | 13.9% | 4.2% |
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 As Color
Products Containing As Color
16 busy labels from the 173 indexed products that list As Color:
As Color vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for As Color: 173 listings averaging 74.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acacia Fiber; Beetroot Powder; Carboxymethylcellulose.
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 As Color evidence
Start from As Color's 173 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list As Color to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare As Color with a peer such as “Acacia Fiber” on 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.
As Color — common follow-ups
Does As Color carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to As Color. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with As Color? ▼
As Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,133 of 247,206), appearing in 173 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is As Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet As Color appears in 173 products (#2,133 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (As Color). 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.