Instant Black Tea
Instant Black Tea appears in 24 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
Instant Black Tea appears in 24 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.
- 24
- catalogued products
- #8,251
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 10 of 24 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Black Tea; Chai latte mix; Chai Spice Black Tea Latte to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Instant Black Tea itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
10 of 24 linked records have some flagged component
All 24 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Instant Black Tea: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,251 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,251
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Instant Black Tea in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 6.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
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 Instant Black Tea
Products Containing Instant Black Tea
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 24 indexed products containing Instant Black Tea:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Instant Black Tea: 24 products, mean screening score 94/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Instant Black Tea evidence
Start from Instant Black Tea's 24 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Instant Black Tea and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Instant Black Tea
Does Instant Black Tea carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Instant Black Tea. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Instant Black Tea? ▼
Instant Black Tea ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Instant Black Tea so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Instant Black Tea appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Instant Black Tea). 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.