Concentrate
Concentrate appears in 252 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
Concentrate appears in 252 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.
- 252
- catalogued products
- #1,684
- usage rank of 247,206
- 164
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 55 of 252 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Juice; 100% juice; 15 pack variety to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Concentrate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages and beverages preparations supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
55 of 252 linked records have some flagged component
All 244 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.
Concentrate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,684 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,684
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 252 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Concentrate in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 12.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Concentrate
Across the 252 products on this site that list Concentrate, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Concentrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 20 | 7.9% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 15 | 6% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 14 | 5.6% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 4.4% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 4.4% | 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 Concentrate
Products Containing Concentrate
16 busy labels from the 252 indexed products that list Concentrate:
High-volume peers for Concentrate beside “Bittersweet Chocolate”
Top-decile company for Concentrate: 252 listings averaging 91.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bittersweet Chocolate; Isomalt; Vit. E.
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.
Next steps from the Concentrate page
Start from Concentrate's 252 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Concentrate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Concentrate next to “Isomalt” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Concentrate 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 Concentrate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Concentrate? ▼
Concentrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,684 of 247,206), appearing in 252 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Concentrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Concentrate appears in 252 products (#1,684 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Concentrate). 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.