Broad Beans
Broad Beans appears in 51 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
Broad Beans appears in 51 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.
- 51
- catalogued products
- #4,904
- usage rank of 247,206
- 21
- named brands represented
- 12%
- 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.
Broad Beans sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,904 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,904
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 51 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Averaged label depth puts Broad Beans near the top of the captured list (12% of list length, mean slot 3.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 5.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Broad Beans spans 21 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 8 Fresh Herb Aromatic Falafels; Bada bean bada boom; Bada bean bada boom crunchy broad beans snacks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
21 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 49 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.
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 Broad Beans
Products Containing Broad Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 51) for products naming Broad Beans:
Broad Beans vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Broad Beans sits among other busy catalog rows (51 products, mean score 99.7/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Agar Gum; Aged Red Pepper; Alcohol Denat. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Broad Beans record
51 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Broad Beans are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Broad Beans and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Broad Beans with a peer such as “Agar Gum” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Broad Beans — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Broad Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Broad Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,904 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Broad Beans? ▼
Broad Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,904 of 247,206), appearing in 51 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Broad Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Broad Beans appears in 51 products (#4,904 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Broad Beans). 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.