Mixed Carotenes
Mixed Carotenes appears in 7 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
Mixed Carotenes appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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.
Mixed Carotenes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#19,546 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Averaged label depth puts Mixed Carotenes near the end of the captured list (76% of list length, mean slot 23.4). 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mixed Carotenes spans 4 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Bundaberg, flavoured sparkling drink, peach; Home blend iced tea; Mango Bango when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 7 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 7 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 Mixed Carotenes
Products Containing Mixed Carotenes
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Mixed Carotenes:
High-volume peers for Mixed Carotenes
High-volume peers for Mixed Carotenes: 7 products, mean screening score 97.9/100. 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 Mixed Carotenes evidence
Use the 7-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Mixed Carotenes and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Mixed Carotenes
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mixed Carotenes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mixed Carotenes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#19,546 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mixed Carotenes? ▼
Mixed Carotenes ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mixed Carotenes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mixed Carotenes appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mixed Carotenes). 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.