Pink

Pink appears in 47 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

Pink appears in 47 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.

47
catalogued products
#5,176
usage rank of 247,206
24
named brands represented
38%
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: 13 of 47 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare ALASKA SALMON BURGERS; Alaska Salmon Burgers; Alaskan salmon burgers, alaskan salmon to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Pink 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.

13 of 47 linked records have some flagged component

All 41 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.

Pink sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,176 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,176
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 83 others that also appear in exactly 47 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
38%
Averaged label depth puts Pink in the upper half of the list (38% of list length, mean slot 12.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Pink

Across the 47 products on this site that list Pink, 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 2.4x more often with Pink than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +7.4ppRed 40+7.4ppBlue 1: +8.6ppBlue 1+8.6ppPolysorbate 60: +9.2ppPolysorbate 60+9.2ppYellow 5: +5.8ppYellow 5+5.8ppCaramel Coloring: +4.9ppCaramel Coloring+4.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Pink 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
7.4pp
Blue 1
8.6pp
Polysorbate 60
9.2pp
Yellow 5
5.8pp
Caramel Coloring
4.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Pink products Share of all products
Red 40 6 12.8% 5.4%
Blue 1 6 12.8% 4.2%
Polysorbate 60 5 10.6% 1.4%
Yellow 5 5 10.6% 4.8%
Caramel Coloring 5 10.6% 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 Pink

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 Pink
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Pink sits among other busy catalog rows (47 products, mean score 86.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

What to do with this Pink record

47 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pink are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Pink before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare another ingredient’s 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. Open methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Pink 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 Pink. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pink?

Pink ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,176 of 247,206), appearing in 47 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pink so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pink appears in 47 products (#5,176 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pink). 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.