Spices And Color

Spices And Color appears in 24 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

Spices And Color appears in 24 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.

24
catalogued products
#8,251
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
55%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

58.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Spices And Color as the trigger. Open records such as Asian Stir Fry Sauce And Marinade; Country Gravy Mix; Grandma's seasonings, spaghetti seasoning and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 55% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

58.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 24 of 24 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Spices And Color sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,251 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#8,251
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
55%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 24 products listing it (mean slot 14.8). Spices And Color usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

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 Spices And Color

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Spices And Color
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Spices And Color: 24 listings averaging 94.4/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Spices And Color evidence

24 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Spices And Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Spices And Color and read how the term sits on real packages. 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.

Spices And Color — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Spices And Color sits in heavily flagged products?

58.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Spices And Color is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Spices And Color?

Spices And Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Spices And Color so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices And Color appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices And Color). 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.