C Red 40
C Red 40 appears in 52 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
C Red 40 appears in 52 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.
- 52
- catalogued products
- #4,852
- usage rank of 248,027
- 21
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 22 of 52 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Amos Peelerz Gummy Peach; Berry Throat Drops Cool Berry; Caramel Apple Pops to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to C Red 40 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
All 52 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.
Where C Red 40 sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #4,852
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 58 others that also appear in exactly 52 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 52 products listing it (mean slot 13.5). C Red 40 usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 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 C Red 40
Across the 52 products on this site that list C Red 40, 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 9.1x more often with C Red 40 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of C Red 40 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 19.2% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 13.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 9.6% | 4.2% |
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing C Red 40
A sample of 16 of the 52 indexed products containing C Red 40, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is C Red 40 safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to C Red 40, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain C Red 40? ▼
C Red 40 is found in 52 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does C Red 40 do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for C Red 40. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
