Color Caramelo

Color Caramelo appears in 25 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 Caramelo appears in 25 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
catalogued products
#8,001
usage rank of 247,206
8
named brands represented
77%
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

80% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Color Caramelo as the trigger. Open records such as Chewy party size; Chicken Flavor Bouillon; Chips Ahoy! Hershey's Fudge Filled Filled Soft Cookies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 81.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 77% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

80% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 23 of 23 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.

Color Caramelo: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,001 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#8,001
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
77%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 25 products listing it (mean slot 35.4). Color Caramelo usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 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 Caramelo

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Color Caramelo
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

High-volume peers for Color Caramelo: 25 products, mean screening score 81.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Color Caramelo record

25 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Color Caramelo are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Color Caramelo and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

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

Color Caramelo — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Color Caramelo sits in heavily flagged products?

80% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Color Caramelo is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Color Caramelo?

Color Caramelo ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Color Caramelo so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Color Caramelo appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Color Caramelo). 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.