Flax Meal
Flax Meal appears in 192 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
Flax Meal appears in 192 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.
- 192
- catalogued products
- #1,993
- usage rank of 247,206
- 71
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Flax Meal: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,993 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,993
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 192 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 192 products listing it (mean slot 13.0). Flax Meal 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.
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 3.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flax Meal spans 71 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% All Natural Chicken Breast Mini Nuggets Patty Fritters With Rib Meat, Chicken Breast; 5 Yogurt & Oat Bar; Absolutely, Crepes when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
71 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 148 of 190 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 Flax Meal
Across the 192 products on this site that list Flax Meal, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 7.2x more often with Flax Meal than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flax Meal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 7 | 3.6% | 0.5% |
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 Flax Meal
Products Containing Flax Meal
16 busy labels from the 192 indexed products that list Flax Meal:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anthocyanins”)
Top-decile company for Flax Meal: 192 listings averaging 99.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Anthocyanins; Bacillus Coagulans; Cookies.
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 Flax Meal evidence
Start from Flax Meal's 192 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Flax Meal before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Flax Meal — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flax Meal? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flax Meal, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,993 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flax Meal? ▼
Flax Meal ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,993 of 247,206), appearing in 192 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 Flax Meal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flax Meal appears in 192 products (#1,993 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flax Meal). 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.