Turmeric Added For Color

Turmeric Added For Color appears in 16 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

Turmeric Added For Color appears in 16 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.

16
catalogued products
#10,944
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
90%
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.

Turmeric Added For Color sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,944 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#10,944
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
90%
Averaged label depth puts Turmeric Added For Color near the end of the captured list (90% of list length, mean slot 26.1). 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 6.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Turmeric Added For Color spans 4 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Halloween Shapes Macaroni & Cheese Dinner, Macaroni & Cheese; Kraft Mac and cheese; mac & cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

4 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 16 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 Turmeric Added For Color

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Turmeric Added For Color
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.

Turmeric Added For Color vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Turmeric Added For Color sits among other busy catalog rows (16 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

What to do with this Turmeric Added For Color record

16 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Turmeric Added For Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Turmeric Added For Color to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Turmeric Added For Color

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Turmeric Added For Color?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Turmeric Added For Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,944 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Turmeric Added For Color?

Turmeric Added For Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Turmeric Added For Color so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turmeric Added For Color appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turmeric Added For Color). 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.