Foods With Aspartame
3,611 US grocery products in this catalogue list Aspartame on the label. 2,352 of them carry both a product name and a brand and can be listed by name.
3,611 US products list Aspartame (0.40% of 894,137)
Aspartame is comparatively uncommon in this catalogue: 0.40% of 894,137 US products carry it, so the 3,611 matches below are a narrow slice rather than a staple. Among the 11 additives with a page here, Aspartame has the 9th-largest footprint, behind BHT (4,542 products) and ahead of TBHQ (2,019). Counts come from Open Food Facts labels joined in PlainFoodSafe; FDA SAFFA and CSPI status appear only when the registry record exists. This page reports label occurrence and attributed status, not whether anyone should eat the product.
- 0.40% catalogue share
- 2,352 named brand matches
- Trident largest brand footprint
The short answer
Trident accounts for the most named products listing Aspartame in this extract (82 of 2,352 listable matches); brand #15 on the same list has 31, and the median of these 15 brand counts is 36.
- 3,611
- US products listing Aspartame
- 0.40%
- of 894,137 catalogue records
- 82
- Trident leads named-brand matches
- 31
- brand #15 cutoff on this list
Counts are label occurrence in the current Open Food Facts snapshot, not a recall, certification, or medical recommendation.
Aspartame is comparatively uncommon in this catalogue: 0.40% of 894,137 US products carry it, so the 3,611 matches below are a narrow slice rather than a staple. Among the 11 additives with a page here, Aspartame has the 9th-largest footprint, behind BHT (4,542 products) and ahead of TBHQ (2,019). The mean position on the ingredient list is 7.2. Ingredient lists run in descending order of weight, so that is mid-label: past the base ingredients, ahead of the smallest-quantity additives. Its closest companion on a label is Acesulfame Potassium, which shows up on 67.6% of these labels against 1.8% of the catalogue at large, roughly 38 times its background rate, so the two are being formulated together rather than meeting by coincidence.
No state in our regulatory table records an action naming Aspartame. The FDA SAFFA record lists it as "Approved". CSPI's Chemical Cuisine classification for it is "Avoid", which is CSPI's rating, not PlainFoodSafe's.
Brands with the most products listing Aspartame
No single brand dominates: the largest, Trident, holds 3.5% of listable matches, and the fifteen below together cover 689, so this is a broad industry-wide ingredient rather than one company's formulation habit.
| # | Brand | Listing Aspartame |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trident | 82 |
| 2 | Great Value | 79 |
| 3 | Meijer | 63 |
| 4 | Crystal Light | 55 |
| 5 | Food Lion | 53 |
| 6 | Clear American | 46 |
| 7 | Hannaford | 45 |
| 8 | Ice Breakers | 36 |
| 9 | Wrigley's | 36 |
| 10 | Winn Dixie | 35 |
| 11 | Kroger | 34 |
| 12 | Mentos | 32 |
| 13 | Coca-Cola | 31 |
| 14 | Dr Pepper | 31 |
| 15 | Pepsi | 31 |
Where these products sit by category
By the label's own primary category, matches cluster hardest in Beverages (826 products, 35.1% of listable matches).
| Primary category (as labelled) | Products |
|---|---|
| Beverages | 826 |
| Snacks | 353 |
| Beverages and beverages preparations | 204 |
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 68 |
| Dairies | 57 |
| Desserts | 55 |
| Sweeteners | 35 |
| Meals | 12 |
| Dietary supplements | 8 |
| Cooking helpers | 4 |
What else is on the same labels
Share of Aspartame labels carrying each ingredient, next to that ingredient's share of the whole catalogue. A co-occurrence close to the baseline means the two simply meet by chance.
| Ingredient | On Aspartame labels | Catalogue baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 67.6% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 25.1% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 21.2% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 20.2% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 15.5% | 4.8% |
Named products listing Aspartame
Thirty of the 2,352 listable matches, ordered by how many flagged additives each label carries in total. Every row links to that product's own record.
Methodology
Matches come from the parsed ingredient links in the PlainFoodSafe database: a product counts here when its OpenFoodFacts ingredient list resolves to the Aspartame record. The headline 3,611 is every matching product in the catalogue; the 2,352 listable figure is the subset that also carries a usable product name and brand, which is what the tables above can show by name. Regulatory status is read from the FDA SAFFA extract and the state-action table; the rating word is CSPI's own classification. See the full methodology for how the catalogue is built and dated. The additive status we quote is the FDA's own, so read it at the source: Verify with FDA Substances Added to Food → Source: OpenFoodFacts, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Caveats and limitations
OpenFoodFacts is crowdsourced, so coverage varies by category and brand and a label recorded here may be out of date relative to the product on the shelf today, because reformulation is common and this catalogue reflects the snapshot it was built from, not a live audit of packaging. Ingredient parsing normalises label spellings and can miss unusual ones, so treat the counts as a floor rather than a census. Presence on a label says nothing about quantity, and nothing on this page is a statement about whether any product is safe for any particular person to eat; for that, read the Aspartame source record and the named regulators directly.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every count on this page is computed from the parsed OpenFoodFacts ingredient links and the FDA/state source tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.