Pomegranate Arils

Pomegranate Arils 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

Pomegranate Arils 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
#4,779
usage rank of 247,206
24
named brands represented
53%
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 Pomegranate Arils - usage rank #4,779

Usage rank
#4,779
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 65 others that also appear in exactly 53 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
53%
Mean relative depth 53% across 53 parsed labels, slot 6.8 on average. Pomegranate Arils 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pomegranate Arils spans 24 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Natural Pomegranate Arils; Antioxidant Blend; Antioxidant Blend – strawberries, dark sweet cherries, pomegranate, blueberries & raspberries when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

24 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 25 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.

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 Pomegranate Arils

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pomegranate Arils
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

High-volume peers for Pomegranate Arils: 47 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Pomegranate Arils record

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

  • Review the sampled product records that list Pomegranate Arils to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Pomegranate Arils — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pomegranate Arils?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pomegranate Arils, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,779 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pomegranate Arils?

Pomegranate Arils ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,779 of 247,206), appearing in 47 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 Pomegranate Arils so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pomegranate Arils appears in 47 products (#4,779 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pomegranate Arils). 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.