China
China appears in 40 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
China appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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.
China sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,797 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Averaged label depth puts China in the lower half of the list (64% of list length, mean slot 10.9). 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 7.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: China spans 15 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bergin, Roasted & Salted Inshell Pumpkin Seeds; Blazin' Trail Mix; Chili Crisp Noodles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 34 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 China
Products Containing China
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 40 indexed products containing China:
China vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for China: 40 products, mean screening score 98/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this China record
Start from China's 40 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list China to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 China? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to China, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,797 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with China? ▼
China ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is China so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet China appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (China). 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.