Maraschino Cherries

Maraschino Cherries appears in 43 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

Maraschino Cherries appears in 43 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.

43
catalogued products
#5,507
usage rank of 247,206
22
named brands represented
36%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

79.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Maraschino Cherries as the trigger. Open records such as Assorted milk chocolates; Black forest cake; Cherry Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 69.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 36% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

79.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 42 of 42 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.

Maraschino Cherries sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,507 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,507
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
36%
Mean relative depth 36% across 43 parsed labels, slot 14.3 on average. Maraschino Cherries tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Maraschino Cherries

Across the 43 products on this site that list Maraschino Cherries, 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. Red 40 shows up about 9.9x more often with Maraschino Cherries than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +48.1ppRed 40+48.1ppCarrageenan: +42ppCarrageenan+42ppRed 3: +17.5ppRed 3+17.5ppCaramel Coloring: +12.9ppCaramel Coloring+12.9ppPolysorbate 60: +12.6ppPolysorbate 60+12.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Maraschino Cherries products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
48.1pp
Carrageenan
42pp
Red 3
17.5pp
Caramel Coloring
12.9pp
Polysorbate 60
12.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Maraschino Cherries products Share of all products
Red 40 23 53.5% 5.4%
Carrageenan 20 46.5% 4.5%
Red 3 8 18.6% 1.1%
Caramel Coloring 8 18.6% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 6 14% 1.4%

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 Maraschino Cherries

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Maraschino Cherries
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Maraschino Cherries vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Maraschino Cherries sits among other busy catalog rows (43 products, mean score 69.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Maraschino Cherries page

Start from Maraschino Cherries's 43 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Maraschino Cherries and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.

Maraschino Cherries — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Maraschino Cherries sits in heavily flagged products?

79.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Maraschino Cherries is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Maraschino Cherries?

Maraschino Cherries ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Maraschino Cherries so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maraschino Cherries appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maraschino Cherries). 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.