Astragalus
Astragalus appears in 38 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
Astragalus appears in 38 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.
- 38
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- 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.
Astragalus: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,893 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 39 products listing it (mean slot 18.8). Astragalus usually falls in the upper 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 15.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Astragalus spans 20 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with 360 Nutrition Vanilla Late; Activated superfood cereal gluten free vegan; AG1 Daily Foundational Nutrition when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 31 of 34 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 Astragalus
Across the 38 products on this site that list Astragalus, 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.9x more often with Astragalus than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Astragalus products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 5 | 13.2% | 2.7% |
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 Astragalus
Products Containing Astragalus
16 busy labels from the 38 indexed products that list Astragalus:
High-volume peers for Astragalus
Astragalus sits among other busy catalog rows (38 products, mean score 97.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Astragalus page
Use the 38-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Astragalus to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Astragalus — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Astragalus? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Astragalus, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,893 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Astragalus? ▼
Astragalus ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 38 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Astragalus so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Astragalus appears in 38 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Astragalus). 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.