U.s. Certified Colors
U.s. Certified Colors appears in 43 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
U.s. Certified Colors appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
93% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify U.s. Certified Colors as the trigger. Open records such as Big Pop; Bunny Big Ears Hollow Milk Chocolate; Cottondale, Chickadee Double Crisp Candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
93% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 43 of 43 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.
U.s. Certified Colors: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,507 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 43 parsed labels, slot 14.8 on average. U.s. Certified Colors tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as U.s. Certified Colors
Across the 43 products on this site that list U.s. Certified Colors, 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. Blue 1 shows up about 18.8x more often with U.s. Certified Colors than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of U.s. Certified Colors products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue 1 | 34 | 79.1% | 4.2% |
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 U.s. Certified Colors
Products Containing U.s. Certified Colors
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 43 indexed products containing U.s. Certified Colors:
High-volume peers for U.s. Certified Colors
High-volume peers for U.s. Certified Colors: 43 products, mean screening score 75.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this U.s. Certified Colors record
43 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on U.s. Certified Colors are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for U.s. Certified Colors and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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
How should I read safety signals when U.s. Certified Colors sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
93% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming U.s. Certified Colors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with U.s. Certified Colors? ▼
U.s. Certified Colors ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is U.s. Certified Colors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet U.s. Certified Colors appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (U.s. Certified Colors). 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.