Brown Mustard Seeds
Brown Mustard Seeds appears in 15 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
Brown Mustard Seeds appears in 15 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.
- 15
- catalogued products
- #11,449
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
Brown Mustard Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#11,449 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,449
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 15 products listing it (mean slot 22.9). Brown Mustard Seeds 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 6.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Brown Mustard Seeds spans 7 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Atkins & potts, essential wholegrain mustard; EVERYDAY DAL RED LENTIL, BUTTERNUT SQUASH & COCONUT; Goan Coconut Simmer Sauce 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.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 15 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 15 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 Brown Mustard Seeds
Products Containing Brown Mustard Seeds
15 busy labels from the 15 indexed products that list Brown Mustard Seeds:
High-volume peers for Brown Mustard Seeds
Brown Mustard Seeds sits among other busy catalog rows (15 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Brown Mustard Seeds evidence
Use the 15-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Brown Mustard Seeds 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Brown Mustard Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Brown Mustard Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,449 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Brown Mustard Seeds? ▼
Brown Mustard Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Brown Mustard Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brown Mustard Seeds appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brown Mustard Seeds). 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.