Agave Nectar

Agave Nectar appears in 625 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

Agave Nectar appears in 625 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.

625
catalogued products
#904
usage rank of 247,206
198
named brands represented
41%
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.

Agave Nectar: top-decile catalog footprint (#904 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#904
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
41%
Mean relative depth 41% across 625 parsed labels, slot 6.4 on average. Agave Nectar tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 4.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Agave Nectar spans 198 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 365 everyday value, fig balsamic dressing; 4 Bangkok Hott; 479 when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

198 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 375 of 592 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 Agave Nectar

Across the 625 products on this site that list Agave Nectar, 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.

Additive Shared products Share of Agave Nectar products Share of all products
Carrageenan 18 2.9% 4.5%
Monk fruit extract 8 1.3% 0.5%

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 Agave Nectar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Agave Nectar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Agave Nectar vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Agave Nectar: 625 listings averaging 99.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Sweet Cream Buttermilk; Soda; Beef Broth.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Agave Nectar record

Start from Agave Nectar's 625 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Agave Nectar and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Agave Nectar next to “Soda” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Agave Nectar

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Agave Nectar?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Agave Nectar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#904 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Agave Nectar?

Agave Nectar ranks in the top decile by product count (#904 of 247,206), appearing in 625 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Agave Nectar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Agave Nectar appears in 625 products (#904 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Agave Nectar). 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.