Suncore Foods safety review
Founded 2016 · Irvine, California
Our verdict
RecommendedSuncore Foods sells plant-based color powders used to tint food without synthetic dyes. Part of the range is certified organic, and you can see exactly which part: the USDA Organic Integrity Database lists Suncore Foods, Inc of Irvine, California as certified under Organic Certifiers, Inc. since 30 June 2020 for ten named products, among them Red Beet Powder, Aqua Blue Spirulina Powder, Indigo Blueberry Powder and Midori Jade Matcha Powder. A powder that is not on that list is not covered by it. We found no FDA recall and no court case under the company's name as of 2026-10-12. The one item on its record is a January 2021 California Proposition 65 notice alleging that its orange carrot powder and dried goji berries were sold without the state's lead warning — a labeling allegation with no complaint, settlement or judgment recorded in the five years since. That notice is more than three years old; it is disclosed here and does not hold the grade down. Suncore is graded recommended on that certificate, for the ten products it names: USDA organic certification is a farming-and-handling standard, not a contaminant test, and a Suncore powder that is not on the certificate is not covered by the grade. Everything else we know about who runs the company is its own description of itself.
- Best for
- Coloring frosting or batter with a plant powder when you want to choose the specific powders that carry an organic certificate you can look up.
- Skip if
- You need to know where a powder was grown and packed before you buy it — the company's FAQ sends that question to individual product pages instead of answering it.
Reviewed by Dan Golden · October 2026
Company facts
- What they make
- food coloring, food dyes, baking, pantry
- Where it's made
- Suncore Foods Inc. sells plant-based color powders, seeds and dried fruit from Irvine, California; the USDA organic register gives its physical address as 23 Mauchly, Suite 108-109, and the company's own terms of service give the same street. By its own account it began in 2016 "when a group of friends came together in Bolivia," is "a 100% women-owned small business," and has run for a decade as "an unfunded yet self-sustaining enterprise" — it names no founders and no investors. It does not say where its powders are grown or packed; its FAQ answers "Where are your products made?" by pointing to each product page.
The company behind Suncore Foods Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Irvine, California
- Ownership
- Independent
No outside owner who can reset the standards.
Safety breakdown
USDA Organic Integrity Database, read 2026-10-12: Suncore Foods, Inc, NOP ID 6220008296, certifier Organic Certifiers, Inc., status Certified, effective 2020-06-30, handling scope of ten products. We found no FDA food enforcement record under "Suncore", "Suncore Foods", "Suncore Foods Inc" or "Sun Core Foods", and none whose product description contains "Suncore" or "Supercolor", in openFDA as of 2026-10-12; CPSC and Canada's recall database returned nothing. One California Proposition 65 60-day notice: AG 2021-00174, filed 2021-01-28 by Ecological Alliance, LLC, alleging lead in "Suncore orange carrot supercolor powder" and "Suncore dried goji berries" and naming Suncore Foods, Inc. and Amazon.com, Inc. The register records no complaint, settlement or judgment against it. Proposition 65 is a warning-label statute — the notice alleged a missing warning, not that the products were found unsafe, and lead occurs naturally in soil and is taken up by the root vegetables and berries these products are made from. The only federal docket matching "Suncore" belongs to an unrelated Florida company, Suncore Industries.
Recall history
No recalls found. We checked CPSC and FDA recall databases as of October 14, 2026 and found no recalls for this brand. Recall databases update continuously — if you own a recalled product, the official notice is always the source to follow.