Green
Green appears in 93 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
Green appears in 93 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.
- 93
- catalogued products
- #3,291
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
Green sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,291 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,291
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 93 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 93 parsed labels, slot 14.2 on average. Green tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Green spans 54 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 10 Seaweed Salad Mix; Almond Nut-Thins Pepper Jack Cheese Rice Cracker Snacks with Almonds; Bite me!, halloween mix whole wheat cookies when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
54 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 57 of 80 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 Green
Across the 93 products on this site that list Green, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Green products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 6.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 6.5% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 5.4% | 5.4% |
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.
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 Green
Products Containing Green
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 93 indexed products containing Green:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aloe Vera Pulp”)
High-volume peers for Green: 93 products, mean screening score 91.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Aloe Vera Pulp; Bonito; Canola Oil Or Soybean Oil. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Green evidence
93 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Green are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Green before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Green next to “Bonito” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Green
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Green? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Green, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,291 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Green? ▼
Green ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,291 of 247,206), appearing in 93 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Green so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green appears in 93 products (#3,291 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green). 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.