Chinese Five Spice
Chinese Five Spice appears in 8 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
Chinese Five Spice appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Chinese Five Spice as the trigger. Open records such as Chicken dumplings; Chow Mein; Korean Recipe Bbq Seasoned Sausage and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 97.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 8 of 8 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Chinese Five Spice: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 8 products listing it (mean slot 29.8). Chinese Five Spice usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 8 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 Chinese Five Spice
Products Containing Chinese Five Spice
A sample of 8 high-volume listings among the 8 indexed products containing Chinese Five Spice:
High-volume peers for Chinese Five Spice
Top-decile company for Chinese Five Spice: 8 listings averaging 97.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Chinese Five Spice evidence
Start from Chinese Five Spice's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Chinese Five Spice before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Chinese Five Spice — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Chinese Five Spice sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Chinese Five Spice is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chinese Five Spice? ▼
Chinese Five Spice ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chinese Five Spice so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chinese Five Spice appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chinese Five Spice). 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.