Pineapple Sectors
Pineapple Sectors appears in 166 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
Pineapple Sectors appears in 166 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.
- 166
- catalogued products
- #2,196
- usage rank of 247,206
- 33
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Pineapple Sectors - usage rank #2,196
- Usage rank
- #2,196
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 166 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 166 parsed labels, slot 5.6 on average. Pineapple Sectors 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pineapple Sectors spans 33 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Choice Fruit Cocktail; Chunky Fruit Mix; Chunky mixed fruit when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
33 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 55 of 159 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 Pineapple Sectors
Across the 166 products on this site that list Pineapple Sectors, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2.4x more often with Pineapple Sectors than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pineapple Sectors products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 11 | 6.6% | 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 Pineapple Sectors
Products Containing Pineapple Sectors
16 busy labels from the 166 indexed products that list Pineapple Sectors:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aged Red Cayenne Peppers”)
Top-decile company for Pineapple Sectors: 166 listings averaging 99/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Aged Red Cayenne Peppers; Natural Almond Flavor; Organic Barley Grass.
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 Pineapple Sectors record
Use the 166-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Pineapple Sectors before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Pineapple Sectors next to “Natural Almond Flavor” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Pineapple Sectors — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pineapple Sectors? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pineapple Sectors, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,196 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pineapple Sectors? ▼
Pineapple Sectors ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,196 of 247,206), appearing in 166 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pineapple Sectors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pineapple Sectors appears in 166 products (#2,196 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pineapple Sectors). 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.