Pure natural food colors
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0855086004059 · Colormaker Inc. · Food additives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pure natural food colors by Colormaker Inc. scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 13 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 13-component label led by Red, Beet Juice, Purple Carrot Juice; 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 13 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0855086004059
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/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.
86004059 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pure natural food colors label screening desk
3 of 13 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 86004059 · 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 · Read with nearest score peer: Harvest Apple Danish · Nearest score peer is Harvest Apple Danish at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Pure natural food colors scores 29.8 points above that category average (95/100 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 Food additives products
Pure natural food colors lists 13 ingredients on its label
13 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 101 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 3 products (3%)
- 2–4
- 32 products (32%)
- 4–6
- 13 products (13%)
- 6–8
- 10 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 14 products (14%)
- 10–12
- 8 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 8 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 3 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 5 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 1 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (3%)
- 22 and above
- 1 products (1%)
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 101 Food additives 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 13 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
(red) beet juice, purple carrot juice, citric acid; (yellow) turmeric; (blue) red cabbage juice, baking soda; and (orange) annatto, caramel color, beet juice; all colors contain less than 1% ethyl alcohol to preserve freshness.
Other products containing Red Cabbage Juice
Red Cabbage Juice is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 59 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Pure natural food colors
Neighbours outside Colormaker Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Pure natural food colors (95/100 here). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Colormaker Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 13 on 0855086004059).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (13 on 0855086004059).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pure natural food colors's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 13-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Pure natural food colors'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 0855086004059: 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.