Zeaxanthin
Zeaxanthin appears in 23 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
Zeaxanthin appears in 23 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.
- 23
- catalogued products
- #8,512
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- 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.
Zeaxanthin sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,512 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,512
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 23 parsed labels, slot 33.2 on average. Zeaxanthin 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Zeaxanthin spans 10 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with BIG GAME ENERGY COTTON CANDY; Black Edition Chocolate; Black Edition Salted Caramel Flavor when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
10 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 23 of 23 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 Zeaxanthin
Products Containing Zeaxanthin
16 busy labels from the 23 indexed products that list Zeaxanthin:
High-volume peers for Zeaxanthin
Top-decile company for Zeaxanthin: 23 listings averaging 97/100.
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 Zeaxanthin record
23 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Zeaxanthin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Zeaxanthin before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Zeaxanthin
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Zeaxanthin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Zeaxanthin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,512 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zeaxanthin? ▼
Zeaxanthin ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Zeaxanthin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zeaxanthin appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zeaxanthin). 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.