Butternut Squash
Butternut Squash appears in 553 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
Butternut Squash appears in 553 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.
- 553
- catalogued products
- #994
- usage rank of 247,206
- 200
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Butternut Squash - usage rank #994
- Usage rank
- #994
- 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
- 22%
- Averaged label depth puts Butternut Squash near the top of the captured list (22% of list length, mean slot 5.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Butternut Squash spans 200 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 organic baby food; 3 Organic Baby Food; 365 everyday value, organic butternut squash ravioli 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.
200 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 242 of 500 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 Butternut Squash
Across the 553 products on this site that list Butternut Squash, 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 Butternut Squash products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 15 | 2.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 2.2% | 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 Butternut Squash
Products Containing Butternut Squash
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 553 indexed products containing Butternut Squash:
Butternut Squash vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Butternut Squash: 553 listings averaging 99.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Hydrolyzed vegetable protein · Cultured Pasteurized Skim Milk · Nutritional Yeast.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Butternut Squash page
Use the 553-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Butternut Squash before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Butternut Squash — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Butternut Squash? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Butternut Squash, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#994 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Butternut Squash? ▼
Butternut Squash ranks in the top decile by product count (#994 of 247,206), appearing in 553 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 Butternut Squash so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Butternut Squash appears in 553 products (#994 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Butternut Squash). 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.