Carob
Carob appears in 127 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
Carob appears in 127 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.
- 127
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 44
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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: 60 of 127 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Natural Maca; 5 crab cakes; Algarrobina Carob Syrup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Carob itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
60 of 127 linked records have some flagged component
All 124 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Carob: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,653 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 127 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Carob in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 9.6). 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 else is usually in the same product as Carob
Across the 127 products on this site that list Carob, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 15.8x more often with Carob than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Carob products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 42 | 33.1% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 34 | 26.8% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 26 | 20.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 25 | 19.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 9 | 7.1% | 3.4% |
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 Carob
Products Containing Carob
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 127 indexed products containing Carob:
High-volume peers for Carob beside “As Ascorbic Acid”
Carob sits among other busy catalog rows (127 products, mean score 73.7/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: As Ascorbic Acid; Bacon Flavor; Beet Sugar. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Carob evidence
127 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Carob are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Carob to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Carob next to “Bacon Flavor” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Carob — common follow-ups
Does Carob 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 Carob. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Carob? ▼
Carob ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 127 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Carob so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Carob appears in 127 products (#2,653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Carob). 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.