Quinine
Quinine carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 120 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Quinine appears in 120 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 120
- catalogued products
- #2,769
- usage rank of 247,206
- 34
- named brands represented
- 89%
- 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 Quinine - usage rank #2,769
- Usage rank
- #2,769
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 120 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 89%
- Mean relative depth 89% across 120 parsed labels, slot 6.3 on average. Quinine tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 29 of 120 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Artisan Tonic Syrup; Bitter Lemon; Canada Dry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Quinine itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
29 of 120 linked records have some flagged component
All 118 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Quinine
Across the 120 products on this site that list Quinine, 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. Aspartame shows up about 9.2x more often with Quinine than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Quinine products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspartame | 10 | 8.3% | 0.9% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 7 | 5.8% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 7 | 5.8% | 2.7% |
| Saccharin | 7 | 5.8% | 0% |
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.
Function
Flavoring
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 Quinine
Products Containing Quinine
High-volume slice (16 of 120) for products naming Quinine:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arrowroot Flour”)
Top-decile company for Quinine: 120 listings averaging 95.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Arrowroot Flour · Chocolatey Coating · Cooking Wine.
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 Quinine record
Use the 120-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Quinine before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Quinine carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Quinine itself carries a CSPI "Certain People Should Avoid" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Quinine? ▼
Quinine ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,769 of 247,206), appearing in 120 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Quinine do in food? ▼
Quinine is recorded as a flavoring in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Quinine). 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.