Colored With
Colored With appears in 401 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
Colored With appears in 401 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.
- 401
- catalogued products
- #1,194
- usage rank of 247,206
- 86
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
83% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Colored With as the trigger. Open records such as Adirondack Mountain Mix; Apple Caramel Cake Mix; Apple jumbo sweet rolls, cinnamon icing and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 52.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 76% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
83% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 401 of 401 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.
Colored With sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,194 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,194
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 401 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Averaged label depth puts Colored With near the end of the captured list (76% of list length, mean slot 30.5). 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 Colored With
Across the 401 products on this site that list Colored With, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 12.1x more often with Colored With than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Colored With products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 232 | 57.9% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 198 | 49.4% | 3.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 175 | 43.6% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 149 | 37.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 136 | 33.9% | 5.4% |
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 Colored With
Products Containing Colored With
High-volume slice (16 of 401) for products naming Colored With:
High-volume peers for Colored With beside “Barley Malt Syrup”
Top-decile company for Colored With: 401 listings averaging 52/100. Nearest count peers include “Barley Malt Syrup”, “Vit. B3”, “Dry Whey”.
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.
What to do with this Colored With record
Start from Colored With's 401 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Colored With to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Colored With — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Colored With sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
83% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Colored With is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Colored With? ▼
Colored With ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,194 of 247,206), appearing in 401 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Colored With so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Colored With appears in 401 products (#1,194 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colored With). 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.