Purple Sweet Potatoes
Purple Sweet Potatoes appears in 12 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 Potatoes appears in 12 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.
- 12
- catalogued products
- #13,357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Purple Sweet Potatoes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#13,357 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #13,357
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 12 parsed labels, slot 5.2 on average. Purple Sweet Potatoes tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 8.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Purple Sweet Potatoes spans 4 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Dried Veggie Blend; Flagstone Foods, Not Your Average Veggie Blend; Nature's harvest, veggie chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 10 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 12 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 Potatoes
Products Containing Purple Sweet Potatoes
A sample of 12 high-volume listings among the 12 indexed products containing Purple Sweet Potatoes:
Purple Sweet Potatoes vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Purple Sweet Potatoes: 12 products, mean screening score 95.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Purple Sweet Potatoes page
Use the 12-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Purple Sweet Potatoes 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
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Purple Sweet Potatoes — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Purple Sweet Potatoes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Purple Sweet Potatoes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#13,357 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Purple Sweet Potatoes? ▼
Purple Sweet Potatoes ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Purple Sweet Potatoes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Purple Sweet Potatoes appears in 12 products (#13,357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Purple Sweet Potatoes). 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.