Stevia Extract

Stevia Extract appears in 1,707 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

Stevia Extract appears in 1,707 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.

1,707
catalogued products
#460
usage rank of 247,206
425
named brands represented
75%
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.

High-volume listing for Stevia Extract - usage rank #460

Usage rank
#460
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
75%
Averaged label depth puts Stevia Extract near the end of the captured list (75% of list length, mean slot 12.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 10.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Stevia Extract spans 425 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 100 Calorie Greek Nonfat Yogurt; 100 calorie greek nonfat yogurt, tart cherry, tart cherry; 100 calories greek strained nonfat yogurt when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

425 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1623 of 1665 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 Stevia Extract

Across the 1,707 products on this site that list Stevia 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 24.2x more often with Stevia Extract than in the catalogue at large.

Monk fruit extract: +11.6ppMonk fruit extract+11.6ppCaramel Coloring: -2.7ppCaramel Coloring-2.7ppCarrageenan: -1.9ppCarrageenan-1.9ppRed 40: -2.9ppRed 40-2.9ppSucralose: -0.5ppSucralose-0.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Stevia Extract products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Monk fruit extract
11.6pp
Caramel Coloring
-2.7pp
Carrageenan
-1.9pp
Red 40
-2.9pp
Sucralose
-0.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Stevia Extract products Share of all products
Monk fruit extract 206 12.1% 0.5%
Caramel Coloring 51 3% 5.7%
Carrageenan 44 2.6% 4.5%
Red 40 42 2.5% 5.4%
Sucralose 37 2.2% 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 Stevia Extract

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Stevia Extract
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.

Stevia Extract vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Stevia Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (1,707 products, mean score 97.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Dehydrated Vegetables · Oleoresin Paprika · Culture. 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.

Using the Stevia Extract evidence

1,707 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Stevia Extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Stevia Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Stevia Extract next to “Oleoresin Paprika” (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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Stevia Extract?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Stevia Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#460 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Stevia Extract?

Stevia Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#460 of 247,206), appearing in 1,707 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Stevia Extract so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Stevia Extract appears in 1,707 products (#460 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Stevia 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.