Tart Cherries
Tart Cherries appears in 150 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
Tart Cherries appears in 150 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.
- 150
- catalogued products
- #2,296
- usage rank of 247,206
- 75
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Tart Cherries: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,296 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,296
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 156 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 156 products listing it (mean slot 9.2). Tart Cherries usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tart Cherries spans 75 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Aegean's choice, dried montmorency tart cherries; Assorted milk & dark chocolates; B.T. Mcelrath, Super Red Chocolate Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
75 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 142 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.
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 Tart Cherries
Products Containing Tart Cherries
16 busy labels from the 150 indexed products that list Tart Cherries:
Tart Cherries vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Tart Cherries: 150 listings averaging 98.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 1 Grade Mustard Seed; Blueberry Juice; Chromium Picolinate.
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.
What to do with this Tart Cherries record
150 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tart Cherries are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Tart Cherries and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Tart Cherries next to “Blueberry Juice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Tart Cherries — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tart Cherries? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tart Cherries, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,296 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tart Cherries? ▼
Tart Cherries ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,296 of 247,206), appearing in 150 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tart Cherries so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tart Cherries appears in 150 products (#2,296 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tart Cherries). 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.