Decaffeinated Tea

Decaffeinated Tea appears in 9 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

Decaffeinated Tea appears in 9 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.

9
catalogued products
#16,390
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
40%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

55.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Decaffeinated Tea as the trigger. Open records such as Decaf Tea; Diet decaf tea; Juice beverage blend from concentrate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 40% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

55.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 9 of 9 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.

High-volume listing for Decaffeinated Tea - usage rank #16,390

Usage rank
#16,390
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
40%
Mean relative depth 40% across 9 parsed labels, slot 4.6 on average. Decaffeinated Tea tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 9 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 Decaffeinated Tea

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 5060708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Decaffeinated Tea Decaf TeaDiet decaf teaJuice beverage blend from concentrateTea & juice beverage blendTeasers, Half Juice And Half Tea BeverageTeasers, Tea & Juice BeverageTurkey hill, diet decaf iced tea, lemonDecaf teaDiet decaf orange tea
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Decaffeinated Tea: 9 listings averaging 89.4/100.

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 Decaffeinated Tea record

Start from Decaffeinated Tea's 9 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Decaffeinated Tea to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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 Decaffeinated Tea sits in heavily flagged products?

55.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Decaffeinated Tea is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Decaffeinated Tea?

Decaffeinated Tea ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Decaffeinated Tea so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Decaffeinated Tea appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Decaffeinated Tea). 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.