Fd&c Colors
Fd&c Colors appears in 263 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
Fd&c Colors appears in 263 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.
- 263
- catalogued products
- #1,626
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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
56.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Fd&c Colors as the trigger. Open records such as A decadent private reserve chocolate assortment; All dark fine chocolates, all dark; All milk fine chocolates, all milk and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 72.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 81% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
56.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 263 of 263 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.
Fd&c Colors: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,626 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,626
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 263 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Mean relative depth 81% across 263 parsed labels, slot 38.8 on average. Fd&c Colors tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Fd&c Colors
Across the 263 products on this site that list Fd&c Colors, 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. Red 40 shows up about 8x more often with Fd&c Colors than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fd&c Colors products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 113 | 43% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 62 | 23.6% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 57 | 21.7% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 22 | 8.4% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 19 | 7.2% | 2.1% |
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 Fd&c Colors
Products Containing Fd&c Colors
High-volume slice (16 of 263) for products naming Fd&c Colors:
High-volume peers for Fd&c Colors beside “Colored With Beta Carotene”
Top-decile company for Fd&c Colors: 263 listings averaging 72.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Colored With Beta Carotene”, “Pink Himalayan Salt”, “Unsweetened Chocolate Processed With Alkali”.
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 Fd&c Colors record
Start from Fd&c Colors's 263 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Fd&c Colors to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Fd&c Colors next to “Pink Himalayan Salt” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Fd&c Colors — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Fd&c Colors sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Fd&c Colors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fd&c Colors? ▼
Fd&c Colors ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,626 of 247,206), appearing in 263 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fd&c Colors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fd&c Colors appears in 263 products (#1,626 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fd&c Colors). 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.