Curcumin
Curcumin appears in 239 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
Curcumin appears in 239 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.
- 239
- catalogued products
- #1,737
- usage rank of 247,206
- 100
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
Curcumin: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,737 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,737
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 239 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Averaged label depth puts Curcumin in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 17.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Curcumin spans 100 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 98, 98, CHICKEN FLAVOUR SAVOURY RICE With garden p; Alphonso Mango Ice Cream; Ambrosia, Devon Custard when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
100 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 239 of 239 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 Curcumin
Across the 239 products on this site that list Curcumin, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.7x more often with Curcumin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Curcumin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 18 | 7.5% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 12 | 5% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 11 | 4.6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 4.2% | 4.8% |
| Blue 2 | 5 | 2.1% | 0.9% |
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 Curcumin
Products Containing Curcumin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 239 indexed products containing Curcumin:
High-volume peers for Curcumin beside “Natural Caramel Flavor”
High-volume peers for Curcumin: 239 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Caramel Flavor · Eggplant · Kelp. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Curcumin page
239 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Curcumin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Curcumin and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Curcumin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Curcumin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,737 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Curcumin? ▼
Curcumin ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,737 of 247,206), appearing in 239 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Curcumin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Curcumin appears in 239 products (#1,737 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Curcumin). 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.