And Caraway

And Caraway appears in 177 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

And Caraway appears in 177 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.

177
catalogued products
#2,104
usage rank of 247,206
88
named brands represented
72%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 52 of 177 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 7 Sisters' Antique Bean & Barley Soup Mix; Aged Cheddar; Aged Cheddar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to And Caraway itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

52 of 177 linked records have some flagged component

All 169 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.

High-volume listing for And Caraway - usage rank #2,104

Usage rank
#2,104
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 177 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
72%
Mean relative depth 72% across 177 parsed labels, slot 19.9 on average. And Caraway tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.

What else is usually in the same product as And Caraway

Across the 177 products on this site that list And Caraway, 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 4.2x more often with And Caraway than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +18ppCaramel Coloring+18ppSodium Nitrite: +0.4ppSodium Nitrite+0.4ppYellow 5: -2ppYellow 5-2ppBHT: +1.7ppBHT+1.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, And Caraway 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
18pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.4pp
Yellow 5
-2pp
BHT
1.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of And Caraway products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 42 23.7% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 5 2.8% 2.4%
Yellow 5 5 2.8% 4.8%
BHT 5 2.8% 1.1%

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 And Caraway

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing And Caraway
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 And Caraway beside “Added For Color”

High-volume peers for And Caraway: 177 products, mean screening score 96.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added For Color · Anhydrous Milkfat · Bacon Fat. 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 And Caraway record

Use the 177-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Which product shelves show up most often with And Caraway?

And Caraway ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,104 of 247,206), appearing in 177 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is And Caraway so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet And Caraway appears in 177 products (#2,104 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (And Caraway). 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.