Curry Powder
Curry Powder appears in 316 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
Curry Powder appears in 316 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.
- 316
- catalogued products
- #1,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 157
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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 Curry Powder - usage rank #1,436
- Usage rank
- #1,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 316 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Mean relative depth 64% across 316 parsed labels, slot 17.7 on average. Curry Powder tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Curry Powder spans 157 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of thai, quick meal yellow curry noodles; All purpose salt free seasoning; Apple Cranberry Chutney when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
157 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 215 of 300 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 Curry Powder
Across the 316 products on this site that list Curry Powder, 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 Curry Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 6.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 5.4% | 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 Curry Powder
Products Containing Curry Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 316) for products naming Curry Powder:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Palm Fat”)
Curry Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (316 products, mean score 98.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Palm Fat”, “Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Cottonseed Oil”, “Artificial Coloring”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Curry Powder page
Start from Curry Powder's 316 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Curry Powder and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Curry Powder next to “Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Cottonseed Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
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 Curry Powder? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Curry Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,436 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Curry Powder? ▼
Curry Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,436 of 247,206), appearing in 316 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Curry Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Curry Powder appears in 316 products (#1,436 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Curry Powder). 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.