Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe appears in 99 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
Cantaloupe appears in 99 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.
- 99
- catalogued products
- #3,153
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 25%
- 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.
Cantaloupe: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,153 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,153
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 99 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 25%
- Averaged label depth puts Cantaloupe in the upper half of the list (25% of list length, mean slot 3.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cantaloupe spans 42 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Blueberry Matcha Fruit Crush Bar; Cantaloupe; Cantaloupe when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
42 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 50 of 88 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.
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 Cantaloupe
Products Containing Cantaloupe
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 99 indexed products containing Cantaloupe:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Blanched Almonds”)
High-volume peers for Cantaloupe: 99 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Blanched Almonds; Caramel Powder; Dehydrated Chopped Garlic. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cantaloupe page
99 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cantaloupe are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cantaloupe to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Cantaloupe next to “Caramel Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cantaloupe
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cantaloupe? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cantaloupe, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,153 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cantaloupe? ▼
Cantaloupe ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,153 of 247,206), appearing in 99 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 Cantaloupe so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cantaloupe appears in 99 products (#3,153 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cantaloupe). 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.