Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine

Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine appears in 171 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

Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine appears in 171 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.

171
catalogued products
#2,157
usage rank of 247,206
40
named brands represented
83%
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.

Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,157 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,157
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 171 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
83%
Averaged label depth puts Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine near the end of the captured list (83% of list length, mean slot 7.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 8.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine spans 40 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Cherry Mixed Fruit; Cherry mixed fruit; Choice Fruit Cocktail when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

40 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 61 of 164 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 Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine

Across the 171 products on this site that list Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine, 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 3.3x more often with Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine products Share of all products
Sucralose 15 8.8% 2.7%

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 Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine
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 (near “Banana Powder”)

Top-decile company for Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine: 171 listings averaging 98.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Banana Powder; Mango Puree Concentrate; Mustard Oil.

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.

Next steps from the Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine page

Start from Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine's 171 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Place Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine next to “Mango Puree Concentrate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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 Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,157 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine?

Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,157 of 247,206), appearing in 171 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 Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine appears in 171 products (#2,157 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine). 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.