According To The Surgeon General
According To The Surgeon General appears in 28 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
According To The Surgeon General appears in 28 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.
- 28
- catalogued products
- #7,422
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
According To The Surgeon General sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,422 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,422
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 182 others that also appear in exactly 28 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts According To The Surgeon General in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 4.6). 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
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: According To The Surgeon General reaches 7 named brands, most often appears under Beverages and beverages preparations, and typically sits in the lower half of the list. Product examples include Baileys liquor; Blended Canadian Whiskey; Bud Light. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (4 of 4), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
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 According To The Surgeon General
Products Containing According To The Surgeon General
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 28 indexed products containing According To The Surgeon General:
High-volume peers for According To The Surgeon General
According To The Surgeon General sits among other busy catalog rows (28 products, mean score 100/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this According To The Surgeon General record
Use the 28-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing According To The Surgeon General before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
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- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
According To The Surgeon General — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on According To The Surgeon General? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to According To The Surgeon General, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,422 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with According To The Surgeon General? ▼
According To The Surgeon General ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,422 of 247,206), appearing in 28 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is According To The Surgeon General so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet According To The Surgeon General appears in 28 products (#7,422 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (According To The Surgeon General). 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.