Red Beets
Red Beets appears in 59 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 Beets appears in 59 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.
- 59
- catalogued products
- #4,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 31
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
Red Beets: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,436 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 62 others that also appear in exactly 59 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Mean relative depth 24% across 59 parsed labels, slot 4.2 on average. Red Beets tends to sit near the top 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.
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: Red Beets spans 31 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Beet & Leek Salad; Beet kvass; Belveder, whole petite beets when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
31 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 51 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 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 Red Beets
Products Containing Red Beets
16 busy labels from the 59 indexed products that list Red Beets:
Red Beets vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Red Beets: 59 products, mean screening score 98.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Orange Juice From Concentrate; Organic Alfalfa Grass; Dried Ancho Pepper. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Red Beets evidence
59 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Red Beets are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Red Beets before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Red Beets with a peer such as “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
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 Red Beets? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Beets, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,436 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Beets? ▼
Red Beets ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,436 of 247,206), appearing in 59 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Beets so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Beets appears in 59 products (#4,436 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Beets). 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.