Ferrous Fumarate
Ferrous Fumarate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 701 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ferrous Fumarate appears in 701 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 701
- catalogued products
- #836
- usage rank of 247,206
- 152
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Ferrous Fumarate: top-decile catalog footprint (#836 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #836
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Mean relative depth 53% across 701 parsed labels, slot 23.3 on average. Ferrous Fumarate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 241 of 701 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Air Heads Soft Filled Bites; Almond Windmill Cookies; Animal crackers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ferrous Fumarate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
241 of 701 linked records have some flagged component
All 696 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Ferrous Fumarate
Across the 701 products on this site that list Ferrous Fumarate, 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 2.1x more often with Ferrous Fumarate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ferrous Fumarate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 80 | 11.4% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 65 | 9.3% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 57 | 8.1% | 4.8% |
| Sucralose | 51 | 7.3% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 45 | 6.4% | 3.4% |
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.
Function
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Ferrous Fumarate
Products Containing Ferrous Fumarate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 701 indexed products containing Ferrous Fumarate:
Ferrous Fumarate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Ferrous Fumarate sits among other busy catalog rows (701 products, mean score 87.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Parsley Flakes · Mustard Seeds · Gluten. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Ferrous Fumarate evidence
Use the 701-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ferrous Fumarate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Ferrous Fumarate with a peer such as “Parsley Flakes” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Ferrous Fumarate
Does Ferrous Fumarate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ferrous Fumarate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ferrous Fumarate? ▼
Ferrous Fumarate ranks in the top decile by product count (#836 of 247,206), appearing in 701 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ferrous Fumarate do in food? ▼
Ferrous Fumarate is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferrous Fumarate). 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.