Mandarin Orange Juice
Mandarin Orange Juice appears in 11 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
Mandarin Orange Juice appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
Mandarin Orange Juice sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#14,190 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Mandarin Orange Juice in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 4.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mandarin Orange Juice spans 7 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Asian Sesame Dressing; California Orange; Lite mandarin orange peeled segments when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 10 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Mandarin Orange Juice
Products Containing Mandarin Orange Juice
11 busy labels from the 11 indexed products that list Mandarin Orange Juice:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Mandarin Orange Juice: 11 listings averaging 99.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Mandarin Orange Juice page
11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Mandarin Orange Juice are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Mandarin Orange Juice to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Mandarin Orange Juice — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mandarin Orange Juice? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mandarin Orange Juice, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mandarin Orange Juice? ▼
Mandarin Orange Juice ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mandarin Orange Juice so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mandarin Orange Juice appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mandarin Orange Juice). 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.