Carrots
Carrots appears in 9,113 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
Carrots appears in 9,113 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.
- 9,113
- catalogued products
- #133
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,666
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Carrots: top-decile catalog footprint (#133 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #133
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 9,183 parsed labels, slot 9.9 on average. Carrots tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 17.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Carrots spans 1666 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco; 100% Cold Pressed Juice; 100% juice vegetable from concentrate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1666 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 5644 of 8665 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Carrots
Across the 9,113 products on this site that list Carrots, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.7x more often with Carrots than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Carrots products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 888 | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 434 | 4.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 158 | 1.7% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 80 | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 68 | 0.7% | 2.1% |
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 Carrots
Products Containing Carrots
High-volume slice (16 of 9,113) for products naming Carrots:
High-volume peers for Carrots beside “Ferrous Sulfate”
Top-decile company for Carrots: 9,113 listings averaging 98/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Ferrous Sulfate; Vanilla; Tomatoes.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Carrots page
Start from Carrots's 9,113 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Carrots to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Carrots? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Carrots, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#133 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Carrots? ▼
Carrots ranks in the top decile by product count (#133 of 247,206), appearing in 9,113 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 Carrots so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Carrots appears in 9,113 products (#133 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Carrots). 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.