Eggplant
Eggplant appears in 239 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
Eggplant appears in 239 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.
- 239
- catalogued products
- #1,737
- usage rank of 247,206
- 112
- named brands represented
- 19%
- 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.
Eggplant: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,737 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,737
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 239 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 19%
- Averaged label depth puts Eggplant near the top of the captured list (19% of list length, mean slot 5.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Eggplant spans 112 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 CHEESE PASTA with EGGPLANT; Ahold, garden vegetable bisque; Albert's Pizza, Roasted Vegan when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
112 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 118 of 220 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 Eggplant
Across the 239 products on this site that list Eggplant, 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 Eggplant products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 2.9% | 5.7% |
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 Eggplant
Products Containing Eggplant
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 239 indexed products containing Eggplant:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Caramel Flavor”)
High-volume peers for Eggplant: 239 products, mean screening score 99.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural Caramel Flavor; Curcumin; Kelp. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Eggplant page
239 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Eggplant are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Eggplant to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Eggplant with a peer such as “Natural Caramel Flavor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Eggplant
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Eggplant? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Eggplant, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,737 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Eggplant? ▼
Eggplant ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,737 of 247,206), appearing in 239 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Eggplant so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Eggplant appears in 239 products (#1,737 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Eggplant). 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.