Cane Caramel Color
Cane Caramel Color appears in 56 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
Cane Caramel Color appears in 56 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.
- 56
- catalogued products
- #4,615
- usage rank of 247,206
- 33
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
62.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cane Caramel Color as the trigger. Open records such as Among Friends, Darcy's Delish, Old Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix; Apple Quick Crisp Mix, Apple; BBQ Style Chicken Pizza and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
62.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 56 of 56 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Cane Caramel Color: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,615 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,615
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 56 parsed labels, slot 22.5 on average. Cane Caramel Color tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Cane Caramel Color
Across the 56 products on this site that list Cane Caramel Color, 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 9.4x more often with Cane Caramel Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cane Caramel Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 30 | 53.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 12 | 21.4% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 16.1% | 2.4% |
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 Cane Caramel Color
Products Containing Cane Caramel Color
High-volume slice (16 of 56) for products naming Cane Caramel Color:
High-volume peers for Cane Caramel Color beside “Almond Base”
Top-decile company for Cane Caramel Color: 56 listings averaging 91.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Base · Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture · Beta-carotene For Color.
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 Cane Caramel Color record
Start from Cane Caramel Color's 56 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cane Caramel Color and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Cane Caramel Color next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Cane Caramel Color sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
62.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cane Caramel Color is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cane Caramel Color? ▼
Cane Caramel Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cane Caramel Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cane Caramel Color appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cane Caramel Color). 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.