Provides Tartness

Provides Tartness appears in 246 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

Provides Tartness appears in 246 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.

246
catalogued products
#1,700
usage rank of 247,206
44
named brands represented
47%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

56.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Provides Tartness as the trigger. Open records such as 100% juice blend; 100% white grape juice from concentrate; 25% orange juice beverage and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

56.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 237 of 245 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Provides Tartness sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,700 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,700
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 246 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
47%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 246 products listing it (mean slot 6.0). Provides Tartness 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.

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 Provides Tartness

Across the 246 products on this site that list Provides Tartness, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 12.2x more often with Provides Tartness than in the catalogue at large.

Acesulfame Potassium: +20.2ppAcesulfame Potassium+20.2ppSucralose: +18ppSucralose+18ppAspartame: +18.6ppAspartame+18.6ppRed 40: +8.8ppRed 40+8.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +4.4ppTitanium Dioxide+4.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Provides Tartness products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Acesulfame Potassium
20.2pp
Sucralose
18pp
Aspartame
18.6pp
Red 40
8.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
4.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Provides Tartness products Share of all products
Acesulfame Potassium 54 22% 1.8%
Sucralose 51 20.7% 2.7%
Aspartame 48 19.5% 0.9%
Red 40 35 14.2% 5.4%
Titanium Dioxide 16 6.5% 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 Provides Tartness

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 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Provides Tartness
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.

High-volume peers for Provides Tartness beside “Coconut Flakes”

High-volume peers for Provides Tartness: 246 products, mean screening score 82.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Coconut Flakes · Ground Black Pepper · Mushroom Extract. 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.

Next steps from the Provides Tartness page

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

  • Review the sampled product records that list Provides Tartness to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Place Provides Tartness next to “Ground Black Pepper” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Provides Tartness

How should I read safety signals when Provides Tartness sits in heavily flagged products?

56.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Provides Tartness is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Provides Tartness?

Provides Tartness ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,700 of 247,206), appearing in 246 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Provides Tartness so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Provides Tartness appears in 246 products (#1,700 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Provides Tartness). 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.