Water
Water appears in 146,268 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
Water appears in 146,268 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.
- 146,268
- catalogued products
- #3
- usage rank of 293,342
- 20,901
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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.
Where Water sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #3
- of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Of the way down the list, averaged across the 146,278 products listing it (mean slot 5.3). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Water usually falls near the top of the list, so it is typically one of the larger components by weight.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How common is Water vs other flagged additives?
Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Water highlighted.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 43254 of 146268 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milkfat Fat Free Small Curd Cottage Cheese; 0% Nonfat Greek Yogurt With Fruit; 071661009749 to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Water itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the list, so it is typically one of the larger components by weight, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
All 141877 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Products Containing Water
A sample of 16 of the 146,268 indexed products containing Water, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Water safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Water, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Water? ▼
Water is found in 146,268 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Water do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Water. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
