Iron Oxides
Iron Oxides appears in 31 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
Iron Oxides appears in 31 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.
- 31
- catalogued products
- #6,896
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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
61.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Iron Oxides as the trigger. Open records such as Bubble Gum Tape; copper eyeshadow; Daily Sheer Tinted Mineral Sunscreen and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 68% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 30 of 30 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.
Iron Oxides: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,896 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,896
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 31 parsed labels, slot 21.0 on average. Iron Oxides tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Iron Oxides
Across the 31 products on this site that list Iron Oxides, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 29.2x more often with Iron Oxides than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Iron Oxides products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 19 | 61.3% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 19.4% | 4.8% |
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 Iron Oxides
Products Containing Iron Oxides
High-volume slice (16 of 31) for products naming Iron Oxides:
High-volume peers for Iron Oxides
High-volume peers for Iron Oxides: 31 products, mean screening score 76.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Iron Oxides record
Start from Iron Oxides's 31 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Iron Oxides to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Iron Oxides — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Iron Oxides sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Iron Oxides is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Iron Oxides? ▼
Iron Oxides ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Iron Oxides so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Iron Oxides appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Iron Oxides). 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.