Purified Water
Purified Water appears in 2,160 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
Purified Water appears in 2,160 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.
- 2,160
- catalogued products
- #384
- usage rank of 247,206
- 596
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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 Purified Water - usage rank #384
- Usage rank
- #384
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 2,160 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,160 products listing it (mean slot 2.8). Purified Water usually falls near the top of the captured 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Purified Water spans 596 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 100% arabica beans; 100% Orange Juice; 100% pulp free orange juice from concentrate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
596 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1426 of 2004 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 Purified Water
Across the 2,160 products on this site that list Purified Water, 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.4x more often with Purified Water than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Purified Water products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 258 | 11.9% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 85 | 3.9% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 42 | 1.9% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 40 | 1.9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 39 | 1.8% | 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 Purified Water
Products Containing Purified Water
16 busy labels from the 2,160 indexed products that list Purified Water:
High-volume peers for Purified Water beside “Natural Mold Inhibitor”
High-volume peers for Purified Water: 2,160 products, mean screening score 96/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural Mold Inhibitor”, “Pumpkin Seeds”, “Shrimp”. 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 Purified Water evidence
Start from Purified Water's 2,160 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Purified Water and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Purified Water with a peer such as “Natural Mold Inhibitor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Purified Water — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Purified Water? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Purified Water, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#384 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Purified Water? ▼
Purified Water ranks in the top decile by product count (#384 of 247,206), appearing in 2,160 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Purified Water so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Purified Water appears in 2,160 products (#384 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Purified Water). 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.