Red 40 Color Added
Red 40 Color Added appears in 14 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 Color Added appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 104%
- 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 Red 40 Color Added - usage rank #11,996
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 104%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 14 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Red 40 Color Added usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 7.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red 40 Color Added spans 8 named brands and is led by the Cooking helpers group. Start with Applesauce; Applesauce With Strawberry Puree; Cherries Jubilee Topping when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 13 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 14 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 Color Added
Products Containing Red 40 Color Added
14 busy labels from the 14 indexed products that list Red 40 Color Added:
High-volume peers for Red 40 Color Added
Top-decile company for Red 40 Color Added: 14 listings averaging 99.6/100.
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 Color Added evidence
Start from Red 40 Color Added's 14 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Red 40 Color Added to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Red 40 Color Added — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red 40 Color Added? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red 40 Color Added, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,996 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red 40 Color Added? ▼
Red 40 Color Added ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red 40 Color Added so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red 40 Color Added appears in 14 products (#11,996 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red 40 Color Added). 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.