Beet
Beet appears in 623 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
Beet appears in 623 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.
- 623
- catalogued products
- #906
- usage rank of 247,206
- 196
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
Beet: top-decile catalog footprint (#906 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #906
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 623 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 623 products listing it (mean slot 18.6). Beet 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Beet spans 196 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Fruit & Vegetable Juice; 100% fruit and vegetable juice; 100% organic belmont beet juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
196 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 498 of 591 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 Beet
Across the 623 products on this site that list Beet, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 7.4x more often with Beet than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Beet products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 23 | 3.7% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 16 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 1.8% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 9 | 1.4% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 1.1% | 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 Beet
Products Containing Beet
16 busy labels from the 623 indexed products that list Beet:
High-volume peers for Beet beside “Beef Broth”
Beet sits among other busy catalog rows (623 products, mean score 98.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Beef Broth · Live And Active Cultures · Sweet Cream Buttermilk. 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 Beet record
Use the 623-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Beet and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Beet next to “Live And Active Cultures” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Beet? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Beet, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#906 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beet? ▼
Beet ranks in the top decile by product count (#906 of 247,206), appearing in 623 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Beet so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Beet appears in 623 products (#906 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beet). 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.