Flax Seed Oil
Flax Seed Oil appears in 75 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 Seed Oil appears in 75 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.
- 75
- catalogued products
- #3,802
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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 Flax Seed Oil - usage rank #3,802
- Usage rank
- #3,802
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 75 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Flax Seed Oil in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 18.3). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flax Seed Oil spans 13 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 12 Organic Protein Bars Variety Pack - Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter with Sea Salt; Almond Acai Bar; Almond Butter when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 33 of 64 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.
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 Seed Oil
Products Containing Flax Seed Oil
16 busy labels from the 75 indexed products that list Flax Seed Oil:
Flax Seed Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Flax Seed Oil: 75 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Alfredo Sauce; Amaranth Seeds; Ascorbic Acid Added As Dough Conditioner. 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 Flax Seed Oil record
Start from Flax Seed Oil's 75 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Flax Seed Oil and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Flax Seed Oil next to “Amaranth Seeds” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flax Seed Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flax Seed Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,802 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flax Seed Oil? ▼
Flax Seed Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,802 of 247,206), appearing in 75 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flax Seed Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flax Seed Oil appears in 75 products (#3,802 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flax Seed Oil). 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.