Includes Red 40 Lake
Includes Red 40 Lake appears in 102 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 Red 40 Lake appears in 102 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.
- 102
- catalogued products
- #3,094
- usage rank of 247,206
- 44
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
95.1% 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 Red 40 Lake as the trigger. Open records such as Airport Foods, Sweet Chocolatey Peanut Trail Mix; Alpina, all-stars, vanilla low fat yogurt, chocolate mini gems; Angela Marie's, Incredible Edible Cowboy Cookie Dough and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 19.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 62% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
95.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 102 of 102 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 Red 40 Lake - usage rank #3,094
- Usage rank
- #3,094
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 102 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 102 products listing it (mean slot 19.2). Includes Red 40 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Includes Red 40 Lake
Across the 102 products on this site that list Includes Red 40 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 17.8x more often with Includes Red 40 Lake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Includes Red 40 Lake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 87 | 85.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 82 | 80.4% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 76 | 74.5% | 0.9% |
| Blue 1 | 70 | 68.6% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 25 | 24.5% | 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 Includes Red 40 Lake
Products Containing Includes Red 40 Lake
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 102 indexed products containing Includes Red 40 Lake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ada”)
Top-decile company for Includes Red 40 Lake: 102 listings averaging 19.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Ada; Apple Extract; Baby Corn.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Includes Red 40 Lake evidence
Start from Includes Red 40 Lake's 102 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Includes Red 40 Lake and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Includes Red 40 Lake next to “Apple Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Includes Red 40 Lake
How should I read safety signals when Includes Red 40 Lake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
95.1% 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 Red 40 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 Red 40 Lake? ▼
Includes Red 40 Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,094 of 247,206), appearing in 102 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Includes Red 40 Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Includes Red 40 Lake appears in 102 products (#3,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Includes Red 40 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.