Celery
Celery appears in 7,694 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
Celery appears in 7,694 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.
- 7,694
- catalogued products
- #150
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,454
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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 Celery - usage rank #150
- Usage rank
- #150
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 7,714 parsed labels, slot 14.8 on average. Celery tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Celery spans 1454 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco; 100% cold-pressed juice; 100% juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1454 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 5863 of 7454 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 Celery
Across the 7,694 products on this site that list Celery, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.7x more often with Celery than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Celery products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 732 | 9.5% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 391 | 5.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 211 | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 144 | 1.9% | 1.3% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 76 | 1% | 2.1% |
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 Celery
Products Containing Celery
High-volume slice (16 of 7,694) for products naming Celery:
High-volume peers for Celery beside “Whey Protein Concentrate”
High-volume peers for Celery: 7,694 products, mean screening score 97.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Whey Protein Concentrate; Buttermilk; Soy. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Celery record
Use the 7,694-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Celery to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Celery — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Celery? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Celery, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#150 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Celery? ▼
Celery ranks in the top decile by product count (#150 of 247,206), appearing in 7,694 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Celery so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Celery appears in 7,694 products (#150 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Celery). 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.