Red Potatoes
Red Potatoes appears in 190 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 Potatoes appears in 190 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.
- 190
- catalogued products
- #2,008
- usage rank of 247,206
- 81
- named brands represented
- 12%
- 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: 50 of 190 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, redskin potato salad; Baby Red Potatoes With Grill Seasoning; BBQ Impossible Pork TM to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Red Potatoes itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
50 of 190 linked records have some flagged component
All 155 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.
Red Potatoes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,008 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,008
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 190 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Mean relative depth 12% across 190 parsed labels, slot 4.3 on average. Red Potatoes 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Red Potatoes
Across the 190 products on this site that list Red Potatoes, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.2x more often with Red Potatoes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Potatoes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 12.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 8.9% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 4.7% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 2.6% | 1.3% |
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 Potatoes
Products Containing Red Potatoes
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 190 indexed products containing Red Potatoes:
High-volume peers for Red Potatoes beside “Encapsulated Citric Acid”
High-volume peers for Red Potatoes: 190 products, mean screening score 97/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Encapsulated Citric Acid; Grated Parmesan Cheese; Low Fat Milk. 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.
Next steps from the Red Potatoes page
Use the 190-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 Potatoes to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Red Potatoes with a peer such as “Encapsulated Citric Acid” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Red Potatoes
Does Red Potatoes 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 Potatoes. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Potatoes? ▼
Red Potatoes ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,008 of 247,206), appearing in 190 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 Potatoes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Potatoes appears in 190 products (#2,008 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Potatoes). 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.