Bananas
Bananas appears in 1,267 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
Bananas appears in 1,267 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.
- 1,267
- catalogued products
- #568
- usage rank of 247,206
- 460
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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.
Bananas sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#568 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #568
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,276 products listing it (mean slot 6.1). Bananas 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bananas spans 460 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% juice, orange, pineapple, banana; 2% Low-Fat Greek Yogurt, Banana, Caramel & Rum; 365 everyday value, banana slices when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
460 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 795 of 1158 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 Bananas
Across the 1,267 products on this site that list Bananas, 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 Bananas products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 73 | 5.8% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 62 | 4.9% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 49 | 3.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 42 | 3.3% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 1.8% | 5.7% |
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 Bananas
Products Containing Bananas
16 busy labels from the 1,267 indexed products that list Bananas:
High-volume peers for Bananas beside “Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate”
High-volume peers for Bananas: 1,267 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate · Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour · Taurine. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Bananas record
Use the 1,267-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 Bananas to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Bananas next to “Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Bananas — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bananas? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bananas, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#568 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bananas? ▼
Bananas ranks in the top decile by product count (#568 of 247,206), appearing in 1,267 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bananas so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bananas appears in 1,267 products (#568 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bananas). 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.