Brewed Tea

Brewed Tea 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

Brewed Tea 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
53
named brands represented
7%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 87 of 282 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Bai calorie tanzania tea naturally sweetened; Bhakti chai, decaf chai concentrate; Bhakti chai, unsweetened decaf tea to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Brewed Tea 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.

87 of 282 linked records have some flagged component

All 264 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.

Brewed Tea: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,542 of 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
7%
Mean relative depth 7% across 282 parsed labels, slot 1.5 on average. Brewed Tea tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Brewed Tea

Across the 282 products on this site that list Brewed 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.8x more often with Brewed Tea than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +15.9ppCaramel Coloring+15.9ppSucralose: +7.2ppSucralose+7.2ppAcesulfame Potassium: +5.3ppAcesulfame Potassium+5.3ppAspartame: +1.6ppAspartame+1.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Brewed Tea products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
15.9pp
Sucralose
7.2pp
Acesulfame Potassium
5.3pp
Aspartame
1.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Brewed Tea products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 61 21.6% 5.7%
Sucralose 28 9.9% 2.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 20 7.1% 1.8%
Aspartame 7 2.5% 0.9%

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 Tea

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Brewed Tea
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.

Brewed Tea vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Brewed Tea: 282 listings averaging 95.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Blackcurrant”, “Organic Grade A Milk”, “Mangoes”.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Brewed Tea record

282 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Brewed Tea are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Brewed Tea and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Brewed Tea next to “Organic Grade A Milk” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Brewed Tea

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Brewed Tea?

Brewed Tea ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,542 of 247,206), appearing in 282 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Brewed Tea so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brewed Tea appears in 282 products (#1,542 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brewed 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.