Edamame
Edamame appears in 367 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
Edamame appears in 367 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.
- 367
- catalogued products
- #1,281
- usage rank of 247,206
- 123
- named brands represented
- 32%
- 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.
Edamame: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,281 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,281
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 367 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Mean relative depth 32% across 367 parsed labels, slot 11.2 on average. Edamame tends to sit in the upper 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 13.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Edamame spans 123 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Alaskan Salmon Cake; All Natural Vegetable Lo Mein; All-Natural Freeze-Dried Edamame Veggie Snack Lightly Seasoned when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
123 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 205 of 338 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 Edamame
Across the 367 products on this site that list Edamame, 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 Edamame products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 7.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 22 | 6% | 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 Edamame
Products Containing Edamame
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 367 indexed products containing Edamame:
High-volume peers for Edamame beside “Green Pepper”
Top-decile company for Edamame: 367 listings averaging 98.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Green Pepper · Lactase · Liquid Smoke.
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.
Using the Edamame evidence
367 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Edamame are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Edamame and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Edamame next to “Lactase” (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.
Edamame — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Edamame? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Edamame, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,281 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Edamame? ▼
Edamame ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,281 of 247,206), appearing in 367 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Edamame so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Edamame appears in 367 products (#1,281 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Edamame). 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.