Dried Cranberries
Dried Cranberries appears in 4,365 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
Dried Cranberries appears in 4,365 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.
- 4,365
- catalogued products
- #195
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,180
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Dried Cranberries sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#195 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #195
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Averaged label depth puts Dried Cranberries in the upper half of the list (39% of list length, mean slot 9.8). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dried Cranberries spans 1180 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Natural Fruit And Nutty Layered Granola Bar; 100% Natural Granola With Cranberry, Cherries, Almonds & Pecans; 100% natural trail mix, cran-beary almond when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1180 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2759 of 4179 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 Dried Cranberries
Across the 4,365 products on this site that list Dried Cranberries, 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 Dried Cranberries products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 95 | 2.2% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 82 | 1.9% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 75 | 1.7% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 74 | 1.7% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 63 | 1.4% | 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 Dried Cranberries
Products Containing Dried Cranberries
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 4,365 indexed products containing Dried Cranberries:
Dried Cranberries vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Dried Cranberries sits among other busy catalog rows (4,365 products, mean score 97.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Pecans”, “Sesame Seeds”, “Dipotassium Phosphate”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Dried Cranberries evidence
Use the 4,365-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dried Cranberries to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Dried Cranberries — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dried Cranberries? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dried Cranberries, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#195 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Cranberries? ▼
Dried Cranberries ranks in the top decile by product count (#195 of 247,206), appearing in 4,365 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dried Cranberries so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Cranberries appears in 4,365 products (#195 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Cranberries). 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.