Cherry Powder

Cherry Powder appears in 665 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

Cherry Powder appears in 665 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.

665
catalogued products
#867
usage rank of 247,206
206
named brands represented
76%
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.

Cherry Powder: top-decile catalog footprint (#867 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#867
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
76%
Mean relative depth 76% across 666 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Cherry Powder tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 14.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cherry Powder spans 206 named brands and is led by the Meats and their products group. Start with 365 everyday value, uncured beef hot dogs; Al Pastor & Pineapple Pork Sticks Street Taco Inspired; All Natural Beef Steak Slices when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

206 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 432 of 614 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 Cherry Powder

Across the 665 products on this site that list Cherry Powder, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.4x more often with Cherry Powder than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +6.5ppCarrageenan+6.5ppCaramel Coloring: -2.8ppCaramel Coloring-2.8ppSodium Nitrite: -0.6ppSodium Nitrite-0.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cherry Powder products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
6.5pp
Caramel Coloring
-2.8pp
Sodium Nitrite
-0.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cherry Powder products Share of all products
Carrageenan 73 11% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 19 2.9% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 12 1.8% 2.4%

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 Cherry Powder

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cherry Powder
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cow's Milk”)

Top-decile company for Cherry Powder: 665 listings averaging 98.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Cow's Milk”, “Grape Juice”, “Milk Protein”.

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 Cherry Powder page

Start from Cherry Powder's 665 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Cherry Powder

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cherry Powder?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cherry Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#867 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cherry Powder?

Cherry Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#867 of 247,206), appearing in 665 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cherry Powder so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cherry Powder appears in 665 products (#867 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cherry Powder). 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.