Colorant
Colorant appears in 73 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
Colorant appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,840
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- 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.
Colorant: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,840 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,840
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 74 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Mean relative depth 77% across 74 parsed labels, slot 18.6 on average. Colorant tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Colorant spans 46 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 8 pains au chocolat; Akkent, Turkish Delight; assic A tartiner 0.99. Everyday e smeren Everyday when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
46 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 73 of 73 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 Colorant
Across the 73 products on this site that list Colorant, 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 3.9x more often with Colorant than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Colorant products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 8.2% | 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 Colorant
Products Containing Colorant
16 busy labels from the 73 indexed products that list Colorant:
Colorant vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Colorant: 73 products, mean screening score 94.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Retain Freshness · Anti Caking Agent · Chiles. 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.
What to do with this Colorant record
Start from Colorant's 73 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Colorant before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Colorant with a peer such as “Added To Retain Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Colorant — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Colorant? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Colorant, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,840 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Colorant? ▼
Colorant ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,840 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Colorant so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Colorant appears in 73 products (#3,840 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colorant). 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.