Eau
Eau appears in 360 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
Eau appears in 360 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.
- 360
- catalogued products
- #1,302
- usage rank of 247,206
- 251
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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.
Eau: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,302 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,302
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 360 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 360 products listing it (mean slot 7.7). Eau usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Eau spans 251 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 8 pains au chocolat; Absinthe Larusée Bleue; Acai Berry Spritz when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
251 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 248 of 318 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 Eau
Across the 360 products on this site that list Eau, 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 Eau products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 13 | 3.6% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 2.2% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 1.4% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 5 | 1.4% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 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 Eau
Products Containing Eau
High-volume slice (16 of 360) for products naming Eau:
Eau vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Eau: 360 products, mean screening score 97.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Instant Coffee; Mono - And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids; Palm Shortening. 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.
What to do with this Eau record
360 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Eau are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Eau and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Eau next to “Mono - And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the 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 Eau? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Eau, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,302 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Eau? ▼
Eau ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,302 of 247,206), appearing in 360 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Eau so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Eau appears in 360 products (#1,302 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Eau). 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.