Bromelain
Bromelain carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 289 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Bromelain appears in 289 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 289
- catalogued products
- #1,517
- usage rank of 247,206
- 91
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
Bromelain: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,517 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,517
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 289 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 289 parsed labels, slot 23.1 on average. Bromelain tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 13.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bromelain spans 91 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 5th season, seasoned meat tenderizer; AG1 Daily Foundational Nutrition; AG1 Daily Foundational Nutrition when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
91 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 259 of 283 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 Bromelain
Across the 289 products on this site that list Bromelain, 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 3x more often with Bromelain than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bromelain products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 23 | 8% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 14 | 4.8% | 5.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 10 | 3.5% | 0.5% |
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.
Function
ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROCESSING AID, TEXTURIZER
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 Bromelain
Products Containing Bromelain
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 289 indexed products containing Bromelain:
High-volume peers for Bromelain beside “Annatto For Color”
Bromelain sits among other busy catalog rows (289 products, mean score 97.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Annatto For Color”, “Ferrous Lactate”, “Natural Fragrance”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Bromelain evidence
Start from Bromelain's 289 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Bromelain and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Bromelain? ▼
Bromelain has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 13.1% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bromelain? ▼
Bromelain ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,517 of 247,206), appearing in 289 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Bromelain do in food? ▼
Bromelain is recorded as a enzyme, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, processing aid, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bromelain). 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.