Cardamom Oleoresin

Cardamom Oleoresin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Cardamom Oleoresin appears in 10 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

10
catalogued products
#15,180
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
90%
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.

Cardamom Oleoresin sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#15,180
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
90%
Mean relative depth 90% across 10 parsed labels, slot 34.9 on average. Cardamom Oleoresin tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cardamom Oleoresin spans 2 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Butter Chicken; Butter chicken; Butter Chicken with Turmeric Rice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

2 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 10 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.

Function

FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 10 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 Cardamom Oleoresin

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cardamom Oleoresin Butter ChickenButter chickenButter Chicken with Turmeric RiceChicken Tikka MasalaCHICKEN TIKKA MASALASamosas Chicken Tikka MasalaSukhi’s Naan BitesTikka Bites Chicken Tikka MasalaChicken tikka masalaChicken tikka masala with lentil rice
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Cardamom Oleoresin vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Cardamom Oleoresin: 10 products, mean screening score 99.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Cardamom Oleoresin record

Use the 10-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Cardamom Oleoresin and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Cardamom Oleoresin — common follow-ups

What do the source ratings say about Cardamom Oleoresin?

Cardamom Oleoresin has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 10% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cardamom Oleoresin?

Cardamom Oleoresin ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Cardamom Oleoresin do in food?

Cardamom Oleoresin is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cardamom Oleoresin). 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.