Orange Base
Orange Base appears in 30 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
Orange Base appears in 30 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.
- 30
- catalogued products
- #7,050
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
86.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Orange Base as the trigger. Open records such as Bbq sauce; Bloody Mary Mix; Citrus Pop-Ups and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 44% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
86.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 30 of 30 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.
Orange Base: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,050 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,050
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 30 parsed labels, slot 9.8 on average. Orange Base 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 Orange Base
Across the 30 products on this site that list Orange Base, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 9.4x more often with Orange Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Orange Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 53.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 23.3% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 20% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 16.7% | 3.4% |
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 Orange Base
Products Containing Orange Base
High-volume slice (16 of 30) for products naming Orange Base:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Orange Base: 30 products, mean screening score 82.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Orange Base page
Use the 30-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Orange Base and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Orange Base
How should I read safety signals when Orange Base sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
86.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Orange Base is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Orange Base? ▼
Orange Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Orange Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Orange Base appears in 30 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Orange Base). 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.