Black Sesame
Black Sesame appears in 43 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
Black Sesame appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
Black Sesame: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,507 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 43 products listing it (mean slot 13.3). Black Sesame 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Black Sesame spans 26 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 18 CEREAL & OAT POWDER; Agar Candy (Original Flavor); Asian gourmet, brown rice crackers, black sesame 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.
26 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 36 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 Black Sesame
Across the 43 products on this site that list Black Sesame, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Black Sesame than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Black Sesame products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 11.6% | 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 Black Sesame
Products Containing Black Sesame
High-volume slice (16 of 43) for products naming Black Sesame:
Black Sesame vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Black Sesame: 43 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Black Sesame record
Start from Black Sesame's 43 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Black Sesame before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Black Sesame
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Black Sesame? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Black Sesame, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,507 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Sesame? ▼
Black Sesame ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Black Sesame so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Sesame appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Sesame). 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.