Pear Puree

Pear Puree appears in 356 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

Pear Puree appears in 356 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.

356
catalogued products
#1,314
usage rank of 247,206
124
named brands represented
23%
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.

Pear Puree sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,314 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,314
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 356 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
23%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 356 products listing it (mean slot 4.9). Pear Puree usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 10.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pear Puree spans 124 named brands and is led by the Baby foods group. Start with 100% crushed smoothie mix fruit concentrate; 100% fruit smoothie; 100% fruitfull smoothie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

124 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 167 of 290 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Pear Puree

Across the 356 products on this site that list Pear Puree, 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.

Blue 1: +2ppBlue 1+2ppRed 40: -0.1ppRed 40-0.1ppCarrageenan: +0ppCarrageenan+0ppCaramel Coloring: -2.9ppCaramel Coloring-2.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Pear Puree products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Blue 1
2pp
Red 40
-0.1pp
Carrageenan
0pp
Caramel Coloring
-2.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Pear Puree products Share of all products
Blue 1 22 6.2% 4.2%
Red 40 19 5.3% 5.4%
Carrageenan 16 4.5% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 10 2.8% 5.7%

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 Pear Puree

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pear Puree
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.

Pear Puree vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Pear Puree: 356 listings averaging 96/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Or Less Of Dextrose · Pork Stock · Fat Free Milk.

Similar product count

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

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Pear Puree record

Start from Pear Puree's 356 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Pear Puree before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Pear Puree with a peer such as “Or Less Of Dextrose” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pear Puree?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pear Puree, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,314 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pear Puree?

Pear Puree ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,314 of 247,206), appearing in 356 indexed products led by Baby foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pear Puree so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pear Puree appears in 356 products (#1,314 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pear Puree). 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.