Flaxseed Oil
Flaxseed Oil appears in 112 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
Flaxseed Oil appears in 112 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.
- 112
- catalogued products
- #2,903
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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 Flaxseed Oil - usage rank #2,903
- Usage rank
- #2,903
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 112 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Averaged label depth puts Flaxseed Oil in the upper half of the list (42% of list length, mean slot 9.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 11.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flaxseed Oil spans 40 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 32g Plant Protein 0g Sugar Chocolate; 32g Plant Protein No Nut Butter Cup; Balanced Nutrition Shake when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
40 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 101 of 107 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 Flaxseed Oil
Across the 112 products on this site that list Flaxseed Oil, 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 51.8x more often with Flaxseed Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flaxseed Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 29 | 25.9% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 4.5% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 4.5% | 4.8% |
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 Flaxseed Oil
Products Containing Flaxseed Oil
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 112 indexed products containing Flaxseed Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chili Pepper And Other Spices”)
Top-decile company for Flaxseed Oil: 112 listings averaging 96.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Chili Pepper And Other Spices”, “Expeller Pressed Vegetable Oil”, “Green Jalapeno Peppers”.
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 Flaxseed Oil record
112 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Flaxseed Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Flaxseed Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Flaxseed Oil with a peer such as “Chili Pepper And Other Spices” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Flaxseed Oil — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flaxseed Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flaxseed Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,903 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flaxseed Oil? ▼
Flaxseed Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,903 of 247,206), appearing in 112 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 Flaxseed Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flaxseed Oil appears in 112 products (#2,903 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flaxseed 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.