Fenugreek Leaves
Fenugreek Leaves appears in 98 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
Fenugreek Leaves appears in 98 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.
- 98
- catalogued products
- #3,174
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
Fenugreek Leaves: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,174 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,174
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 98 products listing it (mean slot 22.1). Fenugreek Leaves usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fenugreek Leaves spans 43 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Aloo paratha; BUTTER CHICKEN; Butter Chicken when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 53 of 81 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 Fenugreek Leaves
Across the 98 products on this site that list Fenugreek Leaves, 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 1.8x more often with Fenugreek Leaves than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fenugreek Leaves products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 8 | 8.2% | 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 Fenugreek Leaves
Products Containing Fenugreek Leaves
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 98 indexed products containing Fenugreek Leaves:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”)
Top-decile company for Fenugreek Leaves: 98 listings averaging 99.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”, “Anti-caking Agents”, “Asiago”.
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 Fenugreek Leaves record
Use the 98-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Fenugreek Leaves to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Fenugreek Leaves with a peer such as “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Fenugreek Leaves
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fenugreek Leaves? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fenugreek Leaves, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,174 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fenugreek Leaves? ▼
Fenugreek Leaves ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fenugreek Leaves so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fenugreek Leaves appears in 98 products (#3,174 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fenugreek Leaves). 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.