Panax

Panax appears in 90 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

Panax appears in 90 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.

90
catalogued products
#3,385
usage rank of 247,206
34
named brands represented
58%
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

74.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Panax as the trigger. Open records such as Acai Berry Bliss Liquid Drink Mix, Acai Berry; Black Cherry +Energy Liquid Beverage Enhancer; Black cherry energy liquid beverage enhancer and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

74.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 90 of 90 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.

Panax sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,385 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,385
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 90 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
58%
Mean relative depth 58% across 90 parsed labels, slot 11.8 on average. Panax tends to sit in the lower 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 Panax

Across the 90 products on this site that list Panax, 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 11.3x more often with Panax than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +55.7ppRed 40+55.7ppSucralose: +22.9ppSucralose+22.9ppBlue 1: +21.4ppBlue 1+21.4ppAcesulfame Potassium: +20.4ppAcesulfame Potassium+20.4ppYellow 5: +4.1ppYellow 5+4.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Panax 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
55.7pp
Sucralose
22.9pp
Blue 1
21.4pp
Acesulfame Potassium
20.4pp
Yellow 5
4.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Panax products Share of all products
Red 40 55 61.1% 5.4%
Sucralose 23 25.6% 2.7%
Blue 1 23 25.6% 4.2%
Acesulfame Potassium 20 22.2% 1.8%
Yellow 5 8 8.9% 4.8%

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 Panax

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 020406080100 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Panax
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.

Panax vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Panax: 90 products, mean screening score 67.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added For Freshness; Organic Agave Fiber; B. Bifidum. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Panax record

Start from Panax's 90 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Panax and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Panax next to “Organic Agave Fiber” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

74.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Panax is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Panax?

Panax ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,385 of 247,206), appearing in 90 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Panax so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Panax appears in 90 products (#3,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Panax). 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.