Cucumber
Cucumber appears in 921 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
Cucumber appears in 921 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.
- 921
- catalogued products
- #701
- usage rank of 247,206
- 304
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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 Cucumber - usage rank #701
- Usage rank
- #701
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 923 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Averaged label depth puts Cucumber in the upper half of the list (40% of list length, mean slot 14.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 19.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cucumber spans 304 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 100% cold-pressed juice; 100% organic belmont beet juice; 1000 Island Salad Dressing when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
304 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 645 of 888 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 Cucumber
Across the 921 products on this site that list Cucumber, 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 Cucumber products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 6% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 49 | 5.3% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 48 | 5.2% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 26 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 19 | 2.1% | 4.2% |
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 Cucumber
Products Containing Cucumber
High-volume slice (16 of 921) for products naming Cucumber:
High-volume peers for Cucumber beside “Chili”
Top-decile company for Cucumber: 921 listings averaging 96.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Chili”, “Allspice”, “Rapeseed Oil”.
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.
Using the Cucumber evidence
Start from Cucumber's 921 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cucumber and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Cucumber next to “Allspice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
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 Cucumber? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cucumber, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#701 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cucumber? ▼
Cucumber ranks in the top decile by product count (#701 of 247,206), appearing in 921 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cucumber so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cucumber appears in 921 products (#701 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cucumber). 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.