Desiccated Coconut
Desiccated Coconut appears in 259 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
Desiccated Coconut appears in 259 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.
- 259
- catalogued products
- #1,647
- usage rank of 247,206
- 135
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Desiccated Coconut - usage rank #1,647
- Usage rank
- #1,647
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 259 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 259 parsed labels, slot 12.0 on average. Desiccated Coconut 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Desiccated Coconut spans 135 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almond Cookies; America's choice, licorice allsorts; Ariel bakery & pastrie, coconut cookies rings when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
135 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 228 of 252 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 Desiccated Coconut
Across the 259 products on this site that list Desiccated Coconut, 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 Desiccated Coconut products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 13 | 5% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 10 | 3.9% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 3.9% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 3.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 2.3% | 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 Desiccated Coconut
Products Containing Desiccated Coconut
High-volume slice (16 of 259) for products naming Desiccated Coconut:
High-volume peers for Desiccated Coconut beside “Almond Milk”
High-volume peers for Desiccated Coconut: 259 products, mean screening score 96.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Milk · Natural And Artificial Vanilla Flavor · Cooked White Chicken Meat. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Desiccated Coconut page
Use the 259-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 Desiccated Coconut to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Desiccated Coconut with a peer such as “Almond Milk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Desiccated Coconut — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Desiccated Coconut? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Desiccated Coconut, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,647 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Desiccated Coconut? ▼
Desiccated Coconut ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,647 of 247,206), appearing in 259 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Desiccated Coconut so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Desiccated Coconut appears in 259 products (#1,647 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Desiccated Coconut). 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.