Plain Caramel
Plain Caramel appears in 64 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
Plain Caramel appears in 64 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.
- 64
- catalogued products
- #4,211
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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 Plain Caramel - usage rank #4,211
- Usage rank
- #4,211
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 64 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 64 parsed labels, slot 17.7 on average. Plain Caramel tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Plain Caramel spans 40 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with America's choice, licorice allsorts; APPLE & CINNAMON FLAPJACK; Black Vinegar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
40 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 64 of 64 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 Plain Caramel
Across the 64 products on this site that list Plain Caramel, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 4.5x more often with Plain Caramel than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Plain Caramel products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 9.4% | 2.1% |
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 Plain Caramel
Products Containing Plain Caramel
High-volume slice (16 of 64) for products naming Plain Caramel:
Plain Caramel vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Plain Caramel: 64 products, mean screening score 97.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Acidophilus”, “Ail”, “Aloe vera”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Plain Caramel evidence
Start from Plain Caramel's 64 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Plain Caramel and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Plain Caramel — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Plain Caramel? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Plain Caramel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,211 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Plain Caramel? ▼
Plain Caramel ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,211 of 247,206), appearing in 64 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Plain Caramel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Plain Caramel appears in 64 products (#4,211 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Plain Caramel). 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.