Red Lake #40
Red Lake #40 appears in 49 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 Lake #40 appears in 49 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.
- 49
- catalogued products
- #5,044
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 90%
- 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: 12 of 49 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Almonds; Barbecue spice seasoning, barbecue spice; Beer Battered Onion Rings to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Red Lake #40 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12 of 49 linked records have some flagged component
All 49 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
Red Lake #40: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,044 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,044
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 64 others that also appear in exactly 49 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 90%
- Mean relative depth 90% across 49 parsed labels, slot 15.2 on average. Red Lake #40 tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Red Lake #40
Across the 49 products on this site that list Red Lake #40, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 5.8x more often with Red Lake #40 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Lake #40 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 12.2% | 2.1% |
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.
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 Lake #40
Products Containing Red Lake #40
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 49 indexed products containing Red Lake #40:
High-volume peers for Red Lake #40
High-volume peers for Red Lake #40: 49 products, mean screening score 95.4/100. 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 Red Lake #40 page
Start from Red Lake #40's 49 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 Lake #40 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Red Lake #40 — common follow-ups
Does Red Lake #40 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 Lake #40. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Lake #40? ▼
Red Lake #40 ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,044 of 247,206), appearing in 49 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Lake #40 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Lake #40 appears in 49 products (#5,044 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Lake #40). 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.