Astaxanthin
Astaxanthin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 37 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Astaxanthin appears in 37 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Color Additive.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
Astaxanthin: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,126 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Mean relative depth 47% across 37 parsed labels, slot 16.5 on average. Astaxanthin tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 9 of 37 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Astaxanthin; Astaxanthin; Carotenall Mixed Carotenoid Complex Non-gmo to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Astaxanthin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
9 of 37 linked records have some flagged component
All 37 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT
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 Astaxanthin
Products Containing Astaxanthin
High-volume slice (16 of 37) for products naming Astaxanthin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Astaxanthin: 37 listings averaging 94.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Astaxanthin evidence
37 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Astaxanthin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Astaxanthin and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Astaxanthin
Does Astaxanthin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Astaxanthin itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Color Additive" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Astaxanthin? ▼
Astaxanthin ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Astaxanthin do in food? ▼
Astaxanthin is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Astaxanthin). 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.