Plum
Plum appears in 172 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
Plum appears in 172 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.
- 172
- catalogued products
- #2,133
- usage rank of 247,206
- 76
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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.
Plum: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,133 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,133
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 173 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Averaged label depth puts Plum in the lower half of the list (57% of list length, mean slot 14.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Plum spans 76 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 73% Dark Chocolate Covered Pomegranate Baobab; Alivr multivitamin; Amaretto Cherry Amaretto Real Premium Ice Cream With Black Cherry Pieces, Amaretto Cherry when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
76 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 146 of 162 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 Plum
Across the 172 products on this site that list Plum, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.9x more often with Plum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Plum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 15 | 8.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 4.7% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 4.1% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 3.5% | 4.2% |
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 Plum
Products Containing Plum
High-volume slice (16 of 172) for products naming Plum:
Plum vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Plum sits among other busy catalog rows (172 products, mean score 96.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Lycopene”, “Potassium Sorbate And Citric Acid”, “Ricotta”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
What to do with this Plum record
Use the 172-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Plum before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Plum
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Plum? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Plum, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,133 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Plum? ▼
Plum ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,133 of 247,206), appearing in 172 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Plum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Plum appears in 172 products (#2,133 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Plum). 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.