Red 40 Aluminum Lake
Red 40 Aluminum Lake appears in 10 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
Red 40 Aluminum Lake appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Atomix Chili and Lime; Atomix Habanero and Lime; Cupcake Cups, Red Velvet to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Red 40 Aluminum Lake itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Red 40 Aluminum Lake - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 10 parsed labels, slot 20.4 on average. Red 40 Aluminum Lake tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Red 40 Aluminum Lake
Products Containing Red 40 Aluminum Lake
10 busy labels from the 10 indexed products that list Red 40 Aluminum Lake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Red 40 Aluminum Lake: 10 products, mean screening score 78/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Red 40 Aluminum Lake evidence
Use the 10-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 Red 40 Aluminum Lake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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 Red 40 Aluminum Lake carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Red 40 Aluminum Lake. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red 40 Aluminum Lake? ▼
Red 40 Aluminum Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red 40 Aluminum Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red 40 Aluminum Lake appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red 40 Aluminum Lake). 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.