Spirulina Extract
Spirulina Extract carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 734 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Spirulina Extract appears in 734 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Color Additive.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 734
- catalogued products
- #811
- usage rank of 247,206
- 243
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Spirulina Extract sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#811 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #811
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 734 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Spirulina Extract in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 16.2). 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spirulina Extract spans 243 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 36 French Macarons; 4 Food Colors; 6 Essential Electrolytes Tropical Variety Pack when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
243 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 729 of 732 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Spirulina Extract
Across the 734 products on this site that list Spirulina Extract, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Spirulina Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 48 | 6.5% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 41 | 5.6% | 2.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 29 | 4% | 0.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 27 | 3.7% | 2.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 2.9% | 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.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT
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 Spirulina Extract
Products Containing Spirulina Extract
High-volume slice (16 of 734) for products naming Spirulina Extract:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Fruit Juice”)
Spirulina Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (734 products, mean score 97.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Fruit Juice · Wheat Protein Isolate · Pepperoni. 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 Spirulina Extract page
734 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Spirulina Extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Spirulina Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Spirulina Extract with a peer such as “Fruit Juice” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Spirulina Extract? ▼
Spirulina Extract has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Color Additive. With only 18.9% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spirulina Extract? ▼
Spirulina Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#811 of 247,206), appearing in 734 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Spirulina Extract do in food? ▼
Spirulina Extract is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spirulina Extract). 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.