Pineapples
Pineapples appears in 224 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
Pineapples appears in 224 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.
- 224
- catalogued products
- #1,804
- usage rank of 247,206
- 114
- named brands represented
- 35%
- 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.
Pineapples: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,804 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,804
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 225 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 35%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 225 products listing it (mean slot 5.3). Pineapples usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pineapples spans 114 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Aloha Chicken Sausage with Pineapple & Ginger; An Orange And Pineapple Flavored Beverage With A 50% Blend Of 6 Vegetable And Fruit Juices From Concentrate With Green Tea Extract, Orange Pineapple; Applause, greens smoothie pack 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.
114 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 113 of 208 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 Pineapples
Across the 224 products on this site that list Pineapples, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pineapples products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 13 | 5.8% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 12 | 5.4% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 3.6% | 3.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 6 | 2.7% | 1.3% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 2.7% | 5.4% |
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 Pineapples
Products Containing Pineapples
High-volume slice (16 of 224) for products naming Pineapples:
Pineapples vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Pineapples: 224 listings averaging 96/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cupric Sulfate · Jasmine Rice · Papain.
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 Pineapples record
Start from Pineapples's 224 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pineapples to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Pineapples with a peer such as “Cupric Sulfate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Pineapples
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pineapples? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pineapples, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,804 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pineapples? ▼
Pineapples ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,804 of 247,206), appearing in 224 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 Pineapples so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pineapples appears in 224 products (#1,804 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pineapples). 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.