Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates

Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates appears in 13 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 & Vegetable Concentrates appears in 13 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.

13
catalogued products
#12,640
usage rank of 247,206
7
named brands represented
58%
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 Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates - usage rank #12,640

Usage rank
#12,640
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
58%
Mean relative depth 58% across 13 parsed labels, slot 13.8 on average. Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates spans 7 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bordeaux Maraschino Cherries; Bordeaux Maraschino Cherries; Chewys when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

7 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 13 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 13 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 & Vegetable Concentrates

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 13 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates sits among other busy catalog rows (13 products, mean score 95.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates record

Use the 13-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#12,640 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates?

Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates appears in 13 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fruit & Vegetable Concentrates). 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.