Reduced Iron
Reduced Iron appears in 36,637 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
Reduced Iron appears in 36,637 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.
- 36,637
- catalogued products
- #22
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,754
- named brands represented
- 25%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 12631 of 36637 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix; 1.2.3 Gluten Free, Aaron's Favorite Rolls to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Reduced Iron itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12631 of 36,637 linked records have some flagged component
All 36042 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.
Reduced Iron: top-decile catalog footprint (#22 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #22
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 25%
- Averaged label depth puts Reduced Iron near the top of the captured list (25% of list length, mean slot 8.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Reduced Iron
Across the 36,637 products on this site that list Reduced Iron, 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 2.1x more often with Reduced Iron than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Reduced Iron products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 4,481 | 12.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 3,279 | 8.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 2,985 | 8.1% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 2,774 | 7.6% | 1.4% |
| Blue 1 | 2,638 | 7.2% | 4.2% |
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 Reduced Iron
Products Containing Reduced Iron
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 36,637 indexed products containing Reduced Iron:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Xanthan Gum”)
High-volume peers for Reduced Iron: 36,637 products, mean screening score 88/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Xanthan Gum; Milk; Enzymes. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Reduced Iron evidence
Start from Reduced Iron's 36,637 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Reduced Iron and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Reduced Iron next to “Milk” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Reduced Iron
Does Reduced Iron 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 Reduced Iron. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Iron? ▼
Reduced Iron ranks in the top decile by product count (#22 of 247,206), appearing in 36,637 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Reduced Iron so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Iron appears in 36,637 products (#22 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Iron). 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.