Includes Blue 1 Lake
Includes Blue 1 Lake appears in 492 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
Includes Blue 1 Lake appears in 492 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.
- 492
- catalogued products
- #1,051
- usage rank of 247,206
- 73
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
99% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Includes Blue 1 Lake as the trigger. Open records such as A blend of roasted peanuts, raisins, almonds & cashews trail mix; Ahold monster trail mix sweet; Almond chocolate candies, almond and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 3.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 60% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
99% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 492 of 492 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Includes Blue 1 Lake - usage rank #1,051
- Usage rank
- #1,051
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 492 products listing it (mean slot 19.9). Includes Blue 1 Lake 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 else is usually in the same product as Includes Blue 1 Lake
Across the 492 products on this site that list Includes Blue 1 Lake, 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. Red 40 shows up about 17.8x more often with Includes Blue 1 Lake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Includes Blue 1 Lake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 473 | 96.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 471 | 95.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 470 | 95.5% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 462 | 93.9% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 454 | 92.3% | 0.9% |
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 Includes Blue 1 Lake
Products Containing Includes Blue 1 Lake
16 busy labels from the 492 indexed products that list Includes Blue 1 Lake:
High-volume peers for Includes Blue 1 Lake beside “Dehydrated Onion And Garlic”
Top-decile company for Includes Blue 1 Lake: 492 listings averaging 3.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dehydrated Onion And Garlic; Agar-agar; Corn Starch-modified.
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 Includes Blue 1 Lake evidence
Use the 492-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Includes Blue 1 Lake before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Includes Blue 1 Lake with a peer such as “Dehydrated Onion And Garlic” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Includes Blue 1 Lake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
99% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Includes Blue 1 Lake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Includes Blue 1 Lake? ▼
Includes Blue 1 Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,051 of 247,206), appearing in 492 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Includes Blue 1 Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Includes Blue 1 Lake appears in 492 products (#1,051 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Includes Blue 1 Lake). 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.