Papaya
Papaya appears in 608 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
Papaya appears in 608 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.
- 608
- catalogued products
- #845
- usage rank of 247,206
- 237
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 166 of 608 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Organic Tropical Fruit Salad; 12 Organic Protein Bars Variety Pack - Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter with Sea Salt; 365 everyday value, hodgepodge harvest trail mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Papaya itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
166 of 608 linked records have some flagged component
All 579 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Papaya - usage rank #845
- Usage rank
- #845
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 685 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 685 parsed labels, slot 11.7 on average. Papaya 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 Papaya
Across the 608 products on this site that list Papaya, 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. Yellow 6 shows up about 3.9x more often with Papaya than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Papaya products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 80 | 13.2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 79 | 13% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 53 | 8.7% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 52 | 8.6% | 4.2% |
| Sucralose | 45 | 7.4% | 2.7% |
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 Papaya
Products Containing Papaya
High-volume slice (16 of 608) for products naming Papaya:
Papaya vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Papaya sits among other busy catalog rows (608 products, mean score 85.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Adipic Acid”, “Avocado”, “Rice Bran”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Papaya page
Use the 608-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Papaya and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Papaya
Does Papaya 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 Papaya. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Papaya? ▼
Papaya ranks in the top decile by product count (#845 of 247,206), appearing in 608 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Papaya so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Papaya appears in 608 products (#845 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Papaya). 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.