Coating
Coating appears in 461 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
Coating appears in 461 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.
- 461
- catalogued products
- #1,089
- usage rank of 247,206
- 128
- named brands represented
- 35%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 187 of 461 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Advanced nutrition 100 calorie snacks drizzled crisps; Apple Pie Ultimate Cookie, Apple Pie; Ashby's sterling, ice cream, michigan pot hole to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Coating 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.
187 of 461 linked records have some flagged component
All 458 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.
Coating: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,089 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,089
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 461 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 35%
- Averaged label depth puts Coating in the upper half of the list (35% of list length, mean slot 11.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Coating
Across the 461 products on this site that list Coating, 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 4.9x more often with Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 102 | 22.1% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 50 | 10.8% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 45 | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 44 | 9.5% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 40 | 8.7% | 4.8% |
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 Coating
Products Containing Coating
High-volume slice (16 of 461) for products naming Coating:
High-volume peers for Coating beside “Blueberry Juice Concentrate”
Coating sits among other busy catalog rows (461 products, mean score 87.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Blueberry Juice Concentrate”, “Used To Protect Quality”, “Onion Juice Concentrate”. 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 Coating evidence
461 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Coating and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Coating with a peer such as “Blueberry Juice Concentrate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Coating 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 Coating. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Coating? ▼
Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,089 of 247,206), appearing in 461 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Coating appears in 461 products (#1,089 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Coating). 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.