Canola
Canola appears in 11,578 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
Canola appears in 11,578 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.
- 11,578
- catalogued products
- #97
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,494
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3421 of 11578 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 Chocolate Chip Waffles; 100% Pure Kodiak Cakes Power Waffles; 100% While Wheat & Honey to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Canola itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3421 of 11,578 linked records have some flagged component
All 11374 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Canola sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#97 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #97
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11,580 products listing it (mean slot 10.5). Canola 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 else is usually in the same product as Canola
Across the 11,578 products on this site that list Canola, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.7x more often with Canola than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Canola products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 1,074 | 9.3% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,067 | 9.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,040 | 9% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 998 | 8.6% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 758 | 6.5% | 4.2% |
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 Canola
Products Containing Canola
16 busy labels from the 11,578 indexed products that list Canola:
Canola vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Canola: 11,578 listings averaging 88.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Vitamin B2 · Potato Starch · Cellulose Gum.
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 Canola page
11,578 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Canola are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Canola 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Canola — common follow-ups
Does Canola carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Canola. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Canola? ▼
Canola ranks in the top decile by product count (#97 of 247,206), appearing in 11,578 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Canola so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Canola appears in 11,578 products (#97 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Canola). 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.