Fruit Juice

Fruit Juice carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 733 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Fruit Juice appears in 733 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Color Additive.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

733
catalogued products
#811
usage rank of 247,206
232
named brands represented
59%
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 Juice: top-decile catalog footprint (#811 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#811
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 734 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
59%
Averaged label depth puts Fruit Juice in the lower half of the list (59% of list length, mean slot 12.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 155 of 733 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% organic juice; 100% whole wheat flatbread stuffed with spinach, spinach; 6 Big Jam Coconut Rings to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 5–100 score range to Fruit Juice 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.

155 of 733 linked records have some flagged component

All 729 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 5–100 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 Fruit Juice

Across the 733 products on this site that list Fruit Juice, 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 3.4x more often with Fruit Juice than in the catalogue at large.

Sucralose: +6.4ppSucralose+6.4ppCarrageenan: +1.4ppCarrageenan+1.4ppCaramel Coloring: -1.9ppCaramel Coloring-1.9ppRed 40: -2.8ppRed 40-2.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +0.2ppTitanium Dioxide+0.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Fruit Juice products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sucralose
6.4pp
Carrageenan
1.4pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.9pp
Red 40
-2.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
0.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Fruit Juice products Share of all products
Sucralose 67 9.1% 2.7%
Carrageenan 43 5.9% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 28 3.8% 5.7%
Red 40 19 2.6% 5.4%
Titanium Dioxide 17 2.3% 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.

Function

COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, 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 Fruit Juice

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 16 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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fruit Juice
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.

Fruit Juice vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Fruit Juice sits among other busy catalog rows (733 products, mean score 96.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Green Onions; Spirulina Extract; Wheat Protein Isolate. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Fruit Juice evidence

Start from Fruit Juice's 733 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Fruit Juice before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Fruit Juice with a peer such as “Green Onions” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Fruit Juice — common follow-ups

Does Fruit Juice carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Fruit Juice itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Color Additive" 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 Fruit Juice?

Fruit Juice ranks in the top decile by product count (#811 of 247,206), appearing in 733 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Fruit Juice do in food?

Fruit Juice is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fruit Juice). 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.