Strawberry Swirl

Strawberry Swirl appears in 61 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

Strawberry Swirl appears in 61 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.

61
catalogued products
#4,349
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
24%
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

85.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Strawberry Swirl as the trigger. Open records such as Banana light ice cream fudge and strawberry swirls pineapple, nuts; Banana split banana ice cream, fudge and strawberry swirls, pineapple, nuts; Banana split ice cream, banana split and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 65.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 24% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

85.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 61 of 61 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.

Strawberry Swirl: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,349 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,349
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 61 products, listed in more products than 98.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
24%
Mean relative depth 24% across 61 parsed labels, slot 9.7 on average. Strawberry Swirl tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Strawberry Swirl

Across the 61 products on this site that list Strawberry Swirl, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 16.8x more often with Strawberry Swirl than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +70.9ppCarrageenan+70.9ppRed 40: +65.1ppRed 40+65.1ppBlue 1: +35.1ppBlue 1+35.1ppAcesulfame Potassium: +8ppAcesulfame Potassium+8ppSucralose: +7.1ppSucralose+7.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Strawberry Swirl products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
70.9pp
Red 40
65.1pp
Blue 1
35.1pp
Acesulfame Potassium
8pp
Sucralose
7.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Strawberry Swirl products Share of all products
Carrageenan 46 75.4% 4.5%
Red 40 43 70.5% 5.4%
Blue 1 24 39.3% 4.2%
Acesulfame Potassium 6 9.8% 1.8%
Sucralose 6 9.8% 2.7%

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 Strawberry Swirl

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 20406080100120 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Strawberry Swirl
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 (near “Natural And Artificial Flavours”)

Top-decile company for Strawberry Swirl: 61 listings averaging 65.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural And Artificial Flavours”, “Basil Leaves”, “Brazils”.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Strawberry Swirl record

Start from Strawberry Swirl's 61 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Strawberry Swirl before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Strawberry Swirl next to “Basil Leaves” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Strawberry Swirl — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Strawberry Swirl sits in heavily flagged products?

85.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Strawberry Swirl is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Strawberry Swirl?

Strawberry Swirl ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,349 of 247,206), appearing in 61 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Strawberry Swirl so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Strawberry Swirl appears in 61 products (#4,349 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Strawberry Swirl). 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.