High
High appears in 26 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
High appears in 26 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.
- 26
- catalogued products
- #7,791
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,791 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,791
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 209 others that also appear in exactly 26 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 26 products listing it (mean slot 13.0). High usually falls in the lower 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 11.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: High spans 20 named brands and is led by the Undefined group. Start with Assorted Chocolate; Assorted Chocolates; Assorted Chocolates when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 23 of 25 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 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 High
Products Containing High
16 busy labels from the 26 indexed products that list High:
High vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for High: 26 listings averaging 98.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this High record
Use the 26-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for High and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
High — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on High? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to High, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,791 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with High? ▼
High ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,791 of 247,206), appearing in 26 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is High so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet High appears in 26 products (#7,791 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (High). 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.