Organic Flax Seeds
Organic Flax Seeds appears in 1,301 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
Organic Flax Seeds appears in 1,301 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.
- 1,301
- catalogued products
- #557
- usage rank of 247,206
- 436
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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 Organic Flax Seeds - usage rank #557
- Usage rank
- #557
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 1,306 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Organic Flax Seeds in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 11.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Organic Flax Seeds spans 436 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Sprouted Whole Wheat; 12 grain bread; 12 Grain Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
436 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 699 of 1223 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 Organic Flax Seeds
Across the 1,301 products on this site that list Organic Flax Seeds, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Organic Flax Seeds products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 2.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 12 | 0.9% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 0.7% | 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 Organic Flax Seeds
Products Containing Organic Flax Seeds
High-volume slice (16 of 1,301) for products naming Organic Flax Seeds:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Barley Malt”)
Top-decile company for Organic Flax Seeds: 1,301 listings averaging 99.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Barley Malt; Thiamine Hydrochloride; Methylcellulose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Organic Flax Seeds record
1,301 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Organic Flax Seeds are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Organic Flax Seeds to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Organic Flax Seeds next to “Thiamine Hydrochloride” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Organic Flax Seeds
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Organic Flax Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Organic Flax Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#557 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Flax Seeds? ▼
Organic Flax Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#557 of 247,206), appearing in 1,301 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 Organic Flax Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Flax Seeds appears in 1,301 products (#557 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Flax Seeds). 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.