Blackcurrant
Blackcurrant appears in 282 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
Blackcurrant appears in 282 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.
- 282
- catalogued products
- #1,542
- usage rank of 247,206
- 94
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
Blackcurrant sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,542 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,542
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 282 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Averaged label depth puts Blackcurrant in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 15.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Blackcurrant spans 94 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ageless Male MAX; Alphabet Fruit Snacks; America's choice, licorice allsorts when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
94 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 261 of 277 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 Blackcurrant
Across the 282 products on this site that list Blackcurrant, 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 2x more often with Blackcurrant than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Blackcurrant products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 12 | 4.3% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 10 | 3.5% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 2.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 2.1% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
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 Blackcurrant
Products Containing Blackcurrant
High-volume slice (16 of 282) for products naming Blackcurrant:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Brewed Tea”)
High-volume peers for Blackcurrant: 282 products, mean screening score 96.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Brewed Tea · Organic Grade A Milk · Mangoes. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Blackcurrant record
282 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Blackcurrant are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Blackcurrant before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Blackcurrant with a peer such as “Brewed Tea” 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. Open 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 Blackcurrant? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Blackcurrant, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,542 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Blackcurrant? ▼
Blackcurrant ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,542 of 247,206), appearing in 282 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Blackcurrant so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Blackcurrant appears in 282 products (#1,542 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Blackcurrant). 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.