Maintains Color And Leavening
Maintains Color And Leavening appears in 5 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
Maintains Color And Leavening appears in 5 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.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 89%
- 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.
Maintains Color And Leavening: top-decile catalog footprint (#24,708 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 89%
- Mean relative depth 89% across 5 parsed labels, slot 21.0 on average. Maintains Color And Leavening tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Maintains Color And Leavening reaches 3 named brands, most often appears under uncategorized products, and typically sits near the end of the captured list. Product examples include Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes; French Fried Crinkle Cut Sweet Potatoes; Seasoned Wedges Potatoes. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (5 of 5), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Maintains Color And Leavening
Products Containing Maintains Color And Leavening
High-volume slice (5 of 5) for products naming Maintains Color And Leavening:
Maintains Color And Leavening vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Maintains Color And Leavening sits among other busy catalog rows (5 products, mean score 100/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Maintains Color And Leavening page
5 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Maintains Color And Leavening are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Maintains Color And Leavening and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Maintains Color And Leavening? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Maintains Color And Leavening, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#24,708 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Maintains Color And Leavening? ▼
Maintains Color And Leavening ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Maintains Color And Leavening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maintains Color And Leavening appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maintains Color And Leavening). 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.