28g
28g appears in 91 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
28g appears in 91 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.
- 91
- catalogued products
- #3,352
- usage rank of 247,206
- 61
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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.
28g sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,352 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,352
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 91 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Averaged label depth puts 28g in the upper half of the list (33% of list length, mean slot 6.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: 28g spans 61 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Whole Wheat Bread; Baked Graham snack; Beef Bacon when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
61 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 62 of 64 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as 28g
Across the 91 products on this site that list 28g, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.3x more often with 28g than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of 28g products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 5.5% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 5.5% | 4.8% |
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 28g
Products Containing 28g
High-volume slice (16 of 91) for products naming 28g:
28g vs other top-decile catalog footprints
28g sits among other busy catalog rows (91 products, mean score 92.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 30g; Acetate; Butter Toffee Peanuts. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the 28g evidence
Start from 28g's 91 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for 28g 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. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
28g — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on 28g? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to 28g, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,352 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with 28g? ▼
28g ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,352 of 247,206), appearing in 91 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 28g so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet 28g appears in 91 products (#3,352 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (28g). 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.