Cashew Nuts
Cashew Nuts appears in 156 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
Cashew Nuts appears in 156 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.
- 156
- catalogued products
- #2,296
- usage rank of 247,206
- 79
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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.
Cashew Nuts sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,296 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,296
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 156 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Averaged label depth puts Cashew Nuts in the upper half of the list (30% of list length, mean slot 6.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cashew Nuts spans 79 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 180; 180 Snacks, Nutty Rice Bites With Cranberries; Adirondack Adventure Bark when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
79 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 136 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 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 Cashew Nuts
Products Containing Cashew Nuts
High-volume slice (16 of 156) for products naming Cashew Nuts:
Cashew Nuts vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cashew Nuts sits among other busy catalog rows (156 products, mean score 99.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Apple Cider; Chardonnay Wine; Cheddar Club Cheese. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cashew Nuts page
Use the 156-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Cashew Nuts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Cashew Nuts next to “Chardonnay Wine” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cashew Nuts? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cashew Nuts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,296 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cashew Nuts? ▼
Cashew Nuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,296 of 247,206), appearing in 156 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cashew Nuts so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cashew Nuts appears in 156 products (#2,296 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cashew Nuts). 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.