Endive
Endive appears in 78 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
Endive appears in 78 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.
- 78
- catalogued products
- #3,709
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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 Endive - usage rank #3,709
- Usage rank
- #3,709
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 78 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Averaged label depth puts Endive in the lower half of the list (54% of list length, mean slot 12.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 10.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Endive spans 15 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 50 50; 50 baby spinach 50 spring mix- baby lettuces baby greens; 50-50 baby spinach, baby lettuce, baby greens, radicchio when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 34 of 44 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 Endive
Across the 78 products on this site that list Endive, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.7x more often with Endive than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Endive products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 7.7% | 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 Endive
Products Containing Endive
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 78 indexed products containing Endive:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Black Sesame Seed”)
High-volume peers for Endive: 78 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Black Sesame Seed”, “Blueberry Juice From Concentrate”, “Organic Cane”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Endive evidence
Use the 78-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Endive before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Endive with a peer such as “Black Sesame Seed” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Endive — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Endive? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Endive, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,709 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Endive? ▼
Endive ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,709 of 247,206), appearing in 78 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 Endive so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Endive appears in 78 products (#3,709 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Endive). 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.