Cooked Red Quinoa
Cooked Red Quinoa appears in 102 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
Cooked Red Quinoa appears in 102 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.
- 102
- catalogued products
- #3,094
- usage rank of 247,206
- 37
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
Cooked Red Quinoa: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,094 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,094
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 102 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 102 parsed labels, slot 14.9 on average. Cooked Red Quinoa tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cooked Red Quinoa spans 37 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with ADODO CHICKEN GRAIN BOWL; Antioxidant Fresh Spinach, Red Quinoa, Cherry Tomatoes, Dried Cranberries, Crispy Kale, Orange Carrots, Red Cabbage, And Roasted Pecans With Blueberry Vinaigrette Power Salad, Antioxidant; Apple and kale quinoa salad when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
37 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 66 of 91 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 Cooked Red Quinoa
Across the 102 products on this site that list Cooked Red Quinoa, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Red Quinoa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 5.9% | 4.5% |
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 Cooked Red Quinoa
Products Containing Cooked Red Quinoa
16 busy labels from the 102 indexed products that list Cooked Red Quinoa:
High-volume peers for Cooked Red Quinoa beside “Ada”
Top-decile company for Cooked Red Quinoa: 102 listings averaging 99.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Ada · Apple Extract · Baby Corn.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Cooked Red Quinoa page
Start from Cooked Red Quinoa's 102 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cooked Red Quinoa to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Cooked Red Quinoa next to “Apple Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cooked Red Quinoa
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cooked Red Quinoa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cooked Red Quinoa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,094 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Red Quinoa? ▼
Cooked Red Quinoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,094 of 247,206), appearing in 102 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Red Quinoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Red Quinoa appears in 102 products (#3,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Red Quinoa). 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.