Color
Color appears in 25,307 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
Color appears in 25,307 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.
- 25,307
- catalogued products
- #35
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,451
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 11327 of 25307 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0016500579793; 1% lowfat milk; 1% lowfat strawberry milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Color itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
11327 of 25,307 linked records have some flagged component
All 25291 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.
Color sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#35 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #35
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Color in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 20.6). 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 Color
Across the 25,307 products on this site that list Color, 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 6.1x more often with Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 3,245 | 12.8% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 3,033 | 12% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 2,723 | 10.8% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 2,712 | 10.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 2,542 | 10% | 5.7% |
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 Color
Products Containing Color
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 25,307 indexed products containing Color:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Preservative”)
High-volume peers for Color: 25,307 products, mean screening score 83.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Preservative; Garlic Powder; Vegetable Oil. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Color evidence
25,307 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Color and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Color with a peer such as “Preservative” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Color — common follow-ups
Does Color 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 Color. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Color? ▼
Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#35 of 247,206), appearing in 25,307 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Color appears in 25,307 products (#35 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Color). 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.