Bay Leaf
Bay Leaf appears in 442 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
Bay Leaf appears in 442 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.
- 442
- catalogued products
- #1,117
- usage rank of 247,206
- 179
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
Bay Leaf sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,117 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,117
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 442 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 442 products listing it (mean slot 18.2). Bay Leaf usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bay Leaf spans 179 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 1 Hott Sauce; 100% natural bone broth chicken; 21 Seasoning Salute when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
179 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 200 of 403 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 Bay Leaf
Across the 442 products on this site that list Bay Leaf, 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 Bay Leaf products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 22 | 5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 12 | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 1.4% | 4.5% |
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 Bay Leaf
Products Containing Bay Leaf
16 busy labels from the 442 indexed products that list Bay Leaf:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal”)
Bay Leaf sits among other busy catalog rows (442 products, mean score 99.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal”, “Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose”, “Sodium Polyphosphate”. 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 Bay Leaf record
Start from Bay Leaf's 442 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Bay Leaf 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. Compare a peer
- 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 Bay Leaf
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bay Leaf? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bay Leaf, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,117 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bay Leaf? ▼
Bay Leaf ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,117 of 247,206), appearing in 442 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bay Leaf so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bay Leaf appears in 442 products (#1,117 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bay Leaf). 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.