Cucumbers
Cucumbers appears in 2,173 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
Cucumbers appears in 2,173 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.
- 2,173
- catalogued products
- #381
- usage rank of 247,206
- 444
- named brands represented
- 12%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
58.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cucumbers as the trigger. Open records such as 100% cold pressed huice green lemonade; 100% vegetable soup, cucumbers mint & chives; 365 everyday value, mango habanero pickle chips and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 12% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
58.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1870 of 2135 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.
Cucumbers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#381 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #381
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Mean relative depth 12% across 2,174 parsed labels, slot 4.8 on average. Cucumbers tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cucumbers
Across the 2,173 products on this site that list Cucumbers, 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 38.7x more often with Cucumbers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cucumbers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 1,092 | 50.3% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 790 | 36.4% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 139 | 6.4% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 48 | 2.2% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 46 | 2.1% | 2.7% |
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 Cucumbers
Products Containing Cucumbers
High-volume slice (16 of 2,173) for products naming Cucumbers:
Cucumbers vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cucumbers sits among other busy catalog rows (2,173 products, mean score 85.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Corn Meal”, “Dough Conditioners”, “Hydrolyzed Corn Protein”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Cucumbers page
Use the 2,173-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Cucumbers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Cucumbers next to “Dough Conditioners” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cucumbers — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Cucumbers sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
58.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cucumbers is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cucumbers? ▼
Cucumbers ranks in the top decile by product count (#381 of 247,206), appearing in 2,173 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cucumbers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cucumbers appears in 2,173 products (#381 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cucumbers). 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.