Colored With Annatto
Colored With Annatto appears in 125 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 Annatto appears in 125 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.
- 125
- catalogued products
- #2,692
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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
56.8% 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 Annatto as the trigger. Open records such as Alessi bakeries, red velvet cupcakes; Apple Crumble; Bake shop golden brown flaky butter pecan danish and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 62% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
56.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 125 of 125 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 Annatto sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,692 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,692
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 125 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 125 parsed labels, slot 24.6 on average. Colored With Annatto tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Annatto
Across the 125 products on this site that list Colored With Annatto, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 15.4x more often with Colored With Annatto than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Colored With Annatto products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 27 | 21.6% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 27 | 21.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 12.8% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 15 | 12% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 12 | 9.6% | 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 Colored With Annatto
Products Containing Colored With Annatto
High-volume slice (16 of 125) for products naming Colored With Annatto:
Colored With Annatto vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Colored With Annatto sits among other busy catalog rows (125 products, mean score 83.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Aluminum Free Baking Powder”, “Annatto Extracts”, “Apple 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Colored With Annatto page
Start from Colored With Annatto's 125 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Colored With Annatto before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Colored With Annatto next to “Annatto Extracts” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Colored With Annatto sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56.8% 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 Annatto 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 Annatto? ▼
Colored With Annatto ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,692 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Colored With Annatto so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Colored With Annatto appears in 125 products (#2,692 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colored With Annatto). 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.