Fresh
Fresh appears in 28 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
Fresh appears in 28 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.
- 28
- catalogued products
- #7,422
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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 Fresh - usage rank #7,422
- Usage rank
- #7,422
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 182 others that also appear in exactly 28 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Mean relative depth 46% across 28 parsed labels, slot 8.0 on average. Fresh tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fresh spans 20 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with All natural pepperoni, mozzarella cheese in a puff pastry pie; Apple Butter; Aunt abby's confections, gluten free chocolate lava cookie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 27 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.
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 Fresh
Products Containing Fresh
16 busy labels from the 28 indexed products that list Fresh:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Fresh: 28 listings averaging 99.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Fresh record
Start from Fresh's 28 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Fresh to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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 Fresh
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fresh? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fresh, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,422 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fresh? ▼
Fresh ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,422 of 247,206), appearing in 28 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fresh so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fresh appears in 28 products (#7,422 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fresh). 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.