Ashwagandha Root Extract

Ashwagandha Root Extract appears in 25 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

Ashwagandha Root Extract appears in 25 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.

25
catalogued products
#8,001
usage rank of 247,206
14
named brands represented
49%
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.

Ashwagandha Root Extract sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,001 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#8,001
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Mean relative depth 49% across 25 parsed labels, slot 17.6 on average. Ashwagandha Root Extract tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ashwagandha Root Extract spans 14 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Candy Shop; Complete Superfoods Superfood Drink Mix Raspberry Pomegranate; Daily Foundational Nutrition when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

14 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 22 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.

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 Ashwagandha Root Extract

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 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Ashwagandha Root Extract
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.

High-volume peers for Ashwagandha Root Extract

Top-decile company for Ashwagandha Root Extract: 25 listings averaging 98.8/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Ashwagandha Root Extract evidence

25 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ashwagandha Root Extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Ashwagandha Root Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Ashwagandha Root Extract

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ashwagandha Root Extract?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ashwagandha Root Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Ashwagandha Root Extract?

Ashwagandha Root Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Ashwagandha Root Extract so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ashwagandha Root Extract appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ashwagandha Root Extract). 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.