Caramelo
Caramelo appears in 9 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
Caramelo appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- 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.
Caramelo sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#16,390 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Caramelo in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 18.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Caramelo spans 6 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Alfajores 70% Cacao Puro; Bomboncitos; DINDON when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 8 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 9 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 Caramelo
Products Containing Caramelo
9 busy labels from the 9 indexed products that list Caramelo:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Caramelo: 9 products, mean screening score 96.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Caramelo record
Use the 9-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Caramelo and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Caramelo
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Caramelo? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Caramelo, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#16,390 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Caramelo? ▼
Caramelo ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Caramelo so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Caramelo appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Caramelo). 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.