Zinc And Iron

Zinc And Iron appears in 209 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

Zinc And Iron appears in 209 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.

209
catalogued products
#1,895
usage rank of 247,206
28
named brands represented
49%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 104 of 209 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Cinnamon Cheerios Cereal; Apple cinnamon whole grain oat cereal; Barre Lucky Charms Treats King Size to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Zinc And Iron itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

104 of 209 linked records have some flagged component

All 205 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Zinc And Iron: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,895 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,895
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 209 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Mean relative depth 49% across 209 parsed labels, slot 18.1 on average. Zinc And Iron tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What else is usually in the same product as Zinc And Iron

Across the 209 products on this site that list Zinc And Iron, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 5x more often with Zinc And Iron than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +23ppCaramel Coloring+23ppRed 40: +16.6ppRed 40+16.6ppBlue 1: +14ppBlue 1+14ppBHT: +5.6ppBHT+5.6ppYellow 6: +1.9ppYellow 6+1.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Zinc And Iron products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
23pp
Red 40
16.6pp
Blue 1
14pp
BHT
5.6pp
Yellow 6
1.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Zinc And Iron products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 60 28.7% 5.7%
Red 40 46 22% 5.4%
Blue 1 38 18.2% 4.2%
BHT 14 6.7% 1.1%
Yellow 6 11 5.3% 3.4%

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 Zinc And Iron

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 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Zinc And Iron
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cultured Celery Juice Powder”)

Zinc And Iron sits among other busy catalog rows (209 products, mean score 85.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cultured Celery Juice Powder; Cultured Milk And Cream; Gelatine. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Zinc And Iron page

Start from Zinc And Iron's 209 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Zinc And Iron and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Zinc And Iron — common follow-ups

Does Zinc And Iron carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Zinc And Iron. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc And Iron?

Zinc And Iron ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,895 of 247,206), appearing in 209 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Zinc And Iron so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zinc And Iron appears in 209 products (#1,895 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc And Iron). 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.