No Artificial Colors

No Artificial Colors 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

No Artificial Colors 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
6
named brands represented
80%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Applewood smoked cheese, applewood smoked; Food Sourced Vitamin C; full circle hair, skin to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to No Artificial Colors itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

2 of 7 linked records have some flagged component

All 6 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

No Artificial Colors 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
80%
Mean relative depth 80% across 7 parsed labels, slot 12.3 on average. No Artificial Colors 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.

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 No Artificial Colors

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 7 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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing No Artificial Colors Applewood smoked cheese, applewood smokedFood Sourced Vitamin Cfull circle hair, skinProtein DrinkSavage SizeSavage Size Spicy Smoked Snack StickZinc
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.

No Artificial Colors vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for No Artificial Colors: 7 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. 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 No Artificial Colors record

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 No Artificial Colors and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

No Artificial Colors — common follow-ups

Does No Artificial Colors carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to No Artificial Colors. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with No Artificial Colors?

No Artificial Colors ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is No Artificial Colors so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet No Artificial Colors appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (No Artificial Colors). 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.