Fruit
Fruit appears in 674 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
Fruit appears in 674 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.
- 674
- catalogued products
- #859
- usage rank of 247,206
- 284
- 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.
Fruit sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#859 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #859
- 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
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 675 products listing it (mean slot 9.6). Fruit 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fruit spans 284 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% crushed smoothie mix fruit concentrate; 20g protein; 50 Calorie Mixed Fruit In Extra Light Syrup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
284 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 594 of 643 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 Fruit
Across the 674 products on this site that list Fruit, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2.4x more often with Fruit than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fruit products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 43 | 6.4% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 30 | 4.5% | 5.4% |
| Monk fruit extract | 25 | 3.7% | 0.5% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 23 | 3.4% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 18 | 2.7% | 4.2% |
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 Fruit
Products Containing Fruit
High-volume slice (16 of 674) for products naming Fruit:
Fruit vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Fruit: 674 products, mean screening score 95.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Chicory Root Extract · Enriched Macaroni Product · Whole Grain Brown Rice Flour. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Fruit record
Use the 674-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Fruit and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Fruit
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fruit? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fruit, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#859 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fruit? ▼
Fruit ranks in the top decile by product count (#859 of 247,206), appearing in 674 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 Fruit so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fruit appears in 674 products (#859 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fruit). 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.