Black Tea
Black Tea appears in 948 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
Black Tea appears in 948 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.
- 948
- catalogued products
- #687
- usage rank of 247,206
- 279
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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.
Black Tea: top-decile catalog footprint (#687 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #687
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 948 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Averaged label depth puts Black Tea in the upper half of the list (33% of list length, mean slot 3.6). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Black Tea spans 279 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 7 select, go! smart, white tea with honey; 7 select, unsweetened iced tea; A bubbly probiotic tea when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
279 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 506 of 895 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 Black Tea
Across the 948 products on this site that list Black Tea, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2.4x more often with Black Tea than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Black Tea products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 61 | 6.4% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 49 | 5.2% | 1.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 45 | 4.7% | 5.7% |
| Aspartame | 18 | 1.9% | 0.9% |
| Red 40 | 15 | 1.6% | 5.4% |
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 Black Tea
Products Containing Black Tea
High-volume slice (16 of 948) for products naming Black Tea:
Black Tea vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Black Tea: 948 listings averaging 97/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Diced Tomatoes In Tomato Juice · Pinto Beans · Potassium Iodate.
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 Black Tea record
Start from Black Tea's 948 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Black Tea before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Black Tea next to “Pinto Beans” (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. See source joins
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 Black Tea? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Black Tea, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#687 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Tea? ▼
Black Tea ranks in the top decile by product count (#687 of 247,206), appearing in 948 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Black Tea so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Tea appears in 948 products (#687 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Tea). 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.