Crushed Flax Seeds
Crushed Flax Seeds appears in 10 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
Crushed Flax Seeds appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
Crushed Flax Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Averaged label depth puts Crushed Flax Seeds in the upper half of the list (46% of list length, mean slot 21.7). 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 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Crushed Flax Seeds spans 4 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with EGGS & CHEDDAR PROTEIN BOX; Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Snack Pack; SANDWICH BUNS when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 9 of 9 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 10 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 Crushed Flax Seeds
Products Containing Crushed Flax Seeds
A sample of 10 high-volume listings among the 10 indexed products containing Crushed Flax Seeds:
High-volume peers for Crushed Flax Seeds
Crushed Flax Seeds sits among other busy catalog rows (10 products, mean score 99.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Crushed Flax Seeds evidence
10 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Crushed Flax Seeds are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Crushed Flax Seeds and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Crushed Flax Seeds
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Crushed Flax Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Crushed Flax Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#15,180 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Crushed Flax Seeds? ▼
Crushed Flax Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Crushed Flax Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crushed Flax Seeds appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crushed Flax Seeds). 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.