Fennel
Fennel appears in 564 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
Fennel appears in 564 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.
- 564
- catalogued products
- #982
- usage rank of 247,206
- 265
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
Fennel sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#982 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #982
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 564 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 564 products listing it (mean slot 15.6). Fennel 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fennel spans 265 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 100% Grass-Fed Beef Meatballs; 100% organic herbal tea; 365 everyday value, italian herb pasta sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
265 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 309 of 542 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 Fennel
Across the 564 products on this site that list Fennel, 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. BHA shows up about 6.6x more often with Fennel than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fennel products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHA | 26 | 4.6% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 4.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 3.9% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 22 | 3.9% | 1.1% |
| Potassium Iodate | 10 | 1.8% | 0.2% |
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 Fennel
Products Containing Fennel
High-volume slice (16 of 564) for products naming Fennel:
High-volume peers for Fennel beside “Partially Hydrogenated Soybean”
High-volume peers for Fennel: 564 products, mean screening score 97.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Partially Hydrogenated Soybean”, “Cooked Chicken”, “Molasses Powder”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Fennel record
Start from Fennel's 564 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Fennel and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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 Fennel
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fennel? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fennel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#982 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fennel? ▼
Fennel ranks in the top decile by product count (#982 of 247,206), appearing in 564 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fennel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fennel appears in 564 products (#982 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fennel). 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.