Spices And Coloring
Spices And Coloring appears in 69 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 Coloring appears in 69 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.
- 69
- catalogued products
- #4,011
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 15 of 69 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Air Fry Chicken seasoned coating mix; Baken-Ets, Chicharrones Fried Pork Skins, Sweet Southern Heat Bbq; Baken-Ets, Fried Pork Skins Chicharrones to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Spices And Coloring itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Cooking helpers supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
15 of 69 linked records have some flagged component
All 69 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Spices And Coloring sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,011 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,011
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 35 others that also appear in exactly 69 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Spices And Coloring in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 28.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Spices And Coloring
Across the 69 products on this site that list Spices And Coloring, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 166.5x more often with Spices And Coloring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Spices And Coloring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 23 | 33.3% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 13% | 5.7% |
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 Spices And Coloring
Products Containing Spices And Coloring
16 busy labels from the 69 indexed products that list Spices And Coloring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Orange Juice”)
Spices And Coloring sits among other busy catalog rows (69 products, mean score 94.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Orange Juice; C Yellow #5; Chili Garlic Sauce. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Spices And Coloring page
69 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Spices And Coloring are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Spices And Coloring to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Spices And Coloring next to “C Yellow #5” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Spices And Coloring
Does Spices And Coloring 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 Spices And Coloring. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spices And Coloring? ▼
Spices And Coloring ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,011 of 247,206), appearing in 69 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spices And Coloring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices And Coloring appears in 69 products (#4,011 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices And Coloring). 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.