Cumin Seeds
Cumin Seeds appears in 109 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
Cumin Seeds appears in 109 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.
- 109
- catalogued products
- #2,950
- usage rank of 247,206
- 58
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
Cumin Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,950 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,950
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 109 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 109 products listing it (mean slot 15.7). Cumin Seeds 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 0.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cumin Seeds spans 58 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with A taste of india, spiced rice with raisins, quick meal; All Seed Savory Crisp - Cumin; Aloo Matar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 100.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
58 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 52 of 99 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 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 Cumin Seeds
Products Containing Cumin Seeds
16 busy labels from the 109 indexed products that list Cumin Seeds:
Cumin Seeds vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Cumin Seeds: 109 listings averaging 100/100. Nearest count peers include “Annatto Vegetable Color”, “B-vitamin”, “Cayenne Pepper Powder”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cumin Seeds page
Use the 109-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Cumin Seeds and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cumin Seeds — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cumin Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cumin Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,950 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cumin Seeds? ▼
Cumin Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,950 of 247,206), appearing in 109 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cumin Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cumin Seeds appears in 109 products (#2,950 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cumin 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.