Organic Arugula
Organic Arugula appears in 404 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 Arugula appears in 404 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.
- 404
- catalogued products
- #1,186
- usage rank of 247,206
- 105
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Organic Arugula - usage rank #1,186
- Usage rank
- #1,186
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 404 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 404 products listing it (mean slot 14.5). Organic Arugula 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.
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 10.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Organic Arugula spans 105 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 Greens Pesto; 50 50; 50 baby spinach 50 spring mix- baby lettuces baby greens when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
105 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 163 of 243 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 Arugula
Across the 404 products on this site that list Organic Arugula, 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 2.2x more often with Organic Arugula than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Organic Arugula products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 5.2% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.2% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 5 | 1.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 5 | 1.2% | 1.1% |
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 Arugula
Products Containing Organic Arugula
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 404 indexed products containing Organic Arugula:
Organic Arugula vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Organic Arugula sits among other busy catalog rows (404 products, mean score 98.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Tofu · Vanilla Bean · Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Organic Arugula record
Start from Organic Arugula's 404 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Organic Arugula before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Organic Arugula — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Organic Arugula? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Organic Arugula, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,186 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Arugula? ▼
Organic Arugula ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,186 of 247,206), appearing in 404 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 Organic Arugula so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Arugula appears in 404 products (#1,186 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Arugula). 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.