Brewed Coffee

Brewed Coffee appears in 135 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

Brewed Coffee appears in 135 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.

135
catalogued products
#2,527
usage rank of 247,206
42
named brands represented
4%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 49 of 135 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Barista bill's coffee; Barista Bill's Iced Coffee; Bustelo Cool, Cafe Con Leche, Coffee Drink With Milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Brewed Coffee itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

49 of 135 linked records have some flagged component

All 131 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.

High-volume listing for Brewed Coffee - usage rank #2,527

Usage rank
#2,527
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 19 others that also appear in exactly 135 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
4%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 135 products listing it (mean slot 1.7). Brewed Coffee usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Brewed Coffee

Across the 135 products on this site that list Brewed Coffee, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 6.4x more often with Brewed Coffee than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +24.4ppCarrageenan+24.4ppSucralose: +15.1ppSucralose+15.1ppCaramel Coloring: -1.3ppCaramel Coloring-1.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Brewed Coffee products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
24.4pp
Sucralose
15.1pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Brewed Coffee products Share of all products
Carrageenan 39 28.9% 4.5%
Sucralose 24 17.8% 2.7%
Caramel Coloring 6 4.4% 5.7%

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 Brewed Coffee

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Brewed Coffee
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Brewed Coffee beside “Added To Stabilize Color”

High-volume peers for Brewed Coffee: 135 products, mean screening score 95.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Stabilize Color · As A Processing Aid · Organic Baby Lettuces. 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.

Using the Brewed Coffee evidence

Start from Brewed Coffee's 135 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Brewed Coffee and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare Brewed Coffee with a peer such as “Added To Stabilize Color” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Brewed Coffee

Does Brewed Coffee 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 Brewed Coffee. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Brewed Coffee?

Brewed Coffee ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,527 of 247,206), appearing in 135 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Brewed Coffee so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brewed Coffee appears in 135 products (#2,527 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brewed Coffee). 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.