Organic Alfalfa
Organic Alfalfa appears in 163 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
Organic Alfalfa appears in 163 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.
- 163
- catalogued products
- #2,231
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
Organic Alfalfa sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,231 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,231
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 163 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 163 products listing it (mean slot 16.8). Organic Alfalfa usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 0.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Organic Alfalfa spans 55 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% organic herbal tea; 12 Organic Protein Bars Variety Pack - Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter with Sea Salt; AG1 Daily Foundational Nutrition when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
55 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 100 of 151 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 Organic Alfalfa
Across the 163 products on this site that list Organic Alfalfa, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 11x more often with Organic Alfalfa than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Organic Alfalfa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 9 | 5.5% | 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 Organic Alfalfa
Products Containing Organic Alfalfa
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 163 indexed products containing Organic Alfalfa:
High-volume peers for Organic Alfalfa beside “Carboxymethyl Cellulose”
Top-decile company for Organic Alfalfa: 163 listings averaging 99.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Carboxymethyl Cellulose · Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product · Cracked Rye.
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 Organic Alfalfa record
Start from Organic Alfalfa's 163 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Organic Alfalfa to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Organic Alfalfa with a peer such as “Carboxymethyl Cellulose” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Organic Alfalfa
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Organic Alfalfa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Organic Alfalfa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,231 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Alfalfa? ▼
Organic Alfalfa ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,231 of 247,206), appearing in 163 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Organic Alfalfa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Alfalfa appears in 163 products (#2,231 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Alfalfa). 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.