Egg
Egg appears in 4,284 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
Egg appears in 4,284 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.
- 4,284
- catalogued products
- #242
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,178
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1326 of 4284 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% natural sweet pepper ravioli; 100% Whey Protein Vanilla Flavor Protein Powder; 100% Whole Wheat Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Egg itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1326 of 4,284 linked records have some flagged component
All 4157 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Egg: top-decile catalog footprint (#242 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #242
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,292 products listing it (mean slot 22.7). Egg 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Egg
Across the 4,284 products on this site that list Egg, 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 60 shows up about 9x more often with Egg than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Egg products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 539 | 12.6% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 375 | 8.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 350 | 8.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 320 | 7.5% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 315 | 7.4% | 5.4% |
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 Egg
Products Containing Egg
16 busy labels from the 4,284 indexed products that list Egg:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Food Starch-modified”)
Egg sits among other busy catalog rows (4,284 products, mean score 89.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Food Starch-modified · Mustard Seed · Spinach. 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 Egg page
Use the 4,284-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Egg and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Egg with a peer such as “Food Starch-modified” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Egg carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Egg. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Egg? ▼
Egg ranks in the top decile by product count (#242 of 247,206), appearing in 4,284 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Egg so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Egg appears in 4,284 products (#242 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Egg). 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.