Red food color
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041512086475 · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Red food color scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 5 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 5-component label led by Water, Certified Food Color, Red 40; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 5 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
65/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
12086475 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Red food color label screening desk
1 of 5 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 40). Source sheet 12086475 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. Red food color scores 9.8 points above that category average (75/100 vs. 65.2/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Baking-decorations products
Red food color lists 5 ingredients on its label
5 6th percentile a longer ingredient list than 6% of the 2,313 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 13 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 46 products (2%)
- 4–6
- 171 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 322 products (14%)
- 8–10
- 264 products (11%)
- 10–12
- 335 products (14%)
- 12–14
- 253 products (11%)
- 14–16
- 201 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 186 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 161 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 106 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 78 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 69 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 41 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 28 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 13 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 8 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 3 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 3 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 4 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 8 products (0%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 2,313 Baking-decorations products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 5 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, certified food color (red 40), citric acid and sodium benzoate (a preservative).
Other products containing Certified Food Color
Certified Food Color is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 40 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Red food color's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 5-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 40. Open Red 40
- Compare Red food color's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0041512086475: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.