Bay Leaves
Bay Leaves appears in 446 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 Leaves appears in 446 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.
- 446
- catalogued products
- #1,111
- usage rank of 247,206
- 164
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Leaves: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,111 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,111
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 446 products listing it (mean slot 18.6). Bay Leaves 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.
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 11.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bay Leaves spans 164 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Achar Gosht Spice Mix; Amy’s Lentil Vegetable Soup; annies vegetable soup with pasta when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
164 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 234 of 408 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 Leaves
Across the 446 products on this site that list Bay Leaves, 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 Leaves products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 30 | 6.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 11 | 2.5% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 1.8% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 8 | 1.8% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 7 | 1.6% | 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 Bay Leaves
Products Containing Bay Leaves
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 446 indexed products containing Bay Leaves:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Carrot Puree”)
Top-decile company for Bay Leaves: 446 listings averaging 98.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Carrot Puree · Phylloquinone · Colour.
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.
Next steps from the Bay Leaves page
446 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bay Leaves are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bay Leaves to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Bay Leaves with a peer such as “Organic Carrot Puree” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Bay Leaves — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bay Leaves? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bay Leaves, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,111 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bay Leaves? ▼
Bay Leaves ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,111 of 247,206), appearing in 446 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bay Leaves so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bay Leaves appears in 446 products (#1,111 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bay Leaves). 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.