Carraghénine
Carraghénine appears in 4 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
Carraghénine appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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
75% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Carraghénine as the trigger. Open records such as Chocolate partly skimmed milk; Crème à café sans lactose; Macchiato Au Caramel and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 96.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 70% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
75% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4 of 4 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.
Carraghénine: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Mean relative depth 70% across 4 parsed labels, slot 16.5 on average. Carraghénine tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 4 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 Carraghénine
Products Containing Carraghénine
Every indexed product currently listing Carraghénine (4 total):
Nationwide peers near this flagged-ingredient footprint
With 75% co-flag overlap, compare peers on count and mean score separately — Carraghénine spans 4 products at 96.3/100 average screening score.
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 Carraghénine record
Start from Carraghénine's 4 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Carraghénine and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Carraghénine — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Carraghénine sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
75% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Carraghénine is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Carraghénine show up across the catalog? ▼
Carraghénine sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 4 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Carraghénine so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Carraghénine. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Carraghénine). 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.