Purple Sweet Potato
Purple Sweet Potato appears in 88 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
Purple Sweet Potato appears in 88 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.
- 88
- catalogued products
- #3,428
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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 Purple Sweet Potato - usage rank #3,428
- Usage rank
- #3,428
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 28 others that also appear in exactly 88 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Purple Sweet Potato in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 12.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Purple Sweet Potato spans 36 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ahold, fruit flavored snacks, fruit & vegetable blend; B4y, Dried Veggie Snacks; Bandar, Vegetable Crisps, Harvest Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 80 of 84 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 Purple Sweet Potato
Across the 88 products on this site that list Purple Sweet Potato, 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 2.1x more often with Purple Sweet Potato than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Purple Sweet Potato products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 5 | 5.7% | 2.7% |
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 Purple Sweet Potato
Products Containing Purple Sweet Potato
16 busy labels from the 88 indexed products that list Purple Sweet Potato:
High-volume peers for Purple Sweet Potato beside “Ashwagandha”
Top-decile company for Purple Sweet Potato: 88 listings averaging 97.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Ashwagandha”, “Bay”, “Butternut Squash Puree”.
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 Purple Sweet Potato record
88 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Purple Sweet Potato are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Purple Sweet Potato before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Purple Sweet Potato with a peer such as “Ashwagandha” on 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Purple Sweet Potato? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Purple Sweet Potato, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,428 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Purple Sweet Potato? ▼
Purple Sweet Potato ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,428 of 247,206), appearing in 88 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Purple Sweet Potato so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Purple Sweet Potato appears in 88 products (#3,428 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Purple Sweet Potato). 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.