Flaxseeds
Flaxseeds appears in 212 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
Flaxseeds appears in 212 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.
- 212
- catalogued products
- #1,873
- usage rank of 247,206
- 83
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Flaxseeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,873 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,873
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 212 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 212 parsed labels, slot 10.8 on average. Flaxseeds tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flaxseeds spans 83 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Natural Granola With Blueberries, Apples, Almonds, Pecans & 4 Seeds; 3 Seed Quinoa Cracker; 3 Seed Sweet Pea Crackers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
83 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 116 of 201 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 Flaxseeds
Products Containing Flaxseeds
16 busy labels from the 212 indexed products that list Flaxseeds:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arabica Coffee”)
High-volume peers for Flaxseeds: 212 products, mean screening score 99.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Arabica Coffee”, “Artificial Colors Including”, “Root”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Flaxseeds evidence
212 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Flaxseeds are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Flaxseeds to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Flaxseeds next to “Artificial Colors Including” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Flaxseeds
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flaxseeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flaxseeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,873 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flaxseeds? ▼
Flaxseeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,873 of 247,206), appearing in 212 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flaxseeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flaxseeds appears in 212 products (#1,873 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flaxseeds). 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.