Broccoli Florets
Broccoli Florets appears in 213 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
Broccoli Florets appears in 213 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.
- 213
- catalogued products
- #1,868
- usage rank of 247,206
- 63
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Broccoli Florets sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,868 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,868
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 213 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Mean relative depth 39% across 213 parsed labels, slot 11.3 on average. Broccoli Florets tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Broccoli Florets spans 63 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% natural broccoli florets; Broccoli & Carrots; Broccoli & Cauliflower when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
63 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 114 of 205 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 Broccoli Florets
Across the 213 products on this site that list Broccoli Florets, 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 Broccoli Florets products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 14 | 6.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 3.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 3.3% | 2.4% |
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 Broccoli Florets
Products Containing Broccoli Florets
High-volume slice (16 of 213) for products naming Broccoli Florets:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Beef Tallow”)
Top-decile company for Broccoli Florets: 213 listings averaging 98/100. Nearest count peers include “Beef Tallow”, “Green Chilies”, “If Colored”.
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 Broccoli Florets page
Use the 213-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 Broccoli Florets to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Broccoli Florets with a peer such as “Beef Tallow” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Broccoli Florets
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Broccoli Florets? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Broccoli Florets, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,868 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Broccoli Florets? ▼
Broccoli Florets ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,868 of 247,206), appearing in 213 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Broccoli Florets so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Broccoli Florets appears in 213 products (#1,868 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Broccoli Florets). 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.