Car
Car appears in 17 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
Car appears in 17 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.
- 17
- catalogued products
- #10,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 96%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 17 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chicken Wings; Classic Caesar Dressing; Cocktail Sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Car itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5 of 17 linked records have some flagged component
All 17 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Car sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,499 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 444 others that also appear in exactly 17 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 96%
- Mean relative depth 96% across 17 parsed labels, slot 15.9 on average. Car tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
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 Car
Products Containing Car
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 17 indexed products containing Car:
High-volume peers for Car
Car sits among other busy catalog rows (17 products, mean score 96.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Car page
17 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Car are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Car to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Car
Does Car 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 Car. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Car? ▼
Car ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,499 of 247,206), appearing in 17 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Car so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Car appears in 17 products (#10,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Car). 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.