Fresh Cucumbers
Fresh Cucumbers appears in 463 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
Fresh Cucumbers appears in 463 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.
- 463
- catalogued products
- #1,085
- usage rank of 247,206
- 100
- named brands represented
- 2%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
77.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Fresh Cucumbers as the trigger. Open records such as A truily original pickle!; Arden's Garden, Ph Solution Pressed Vegetable Juice; Baby Dill Garlic Pickles and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 2% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
77.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 438 of 458 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Fresh Cucumbers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,085 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,085
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 463 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 2%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 463 products listing it (mean slot 1.7). Fresh Cucumbers usually falls near the top of the captured 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 else is usually in the same product as Fresh Cucumbers
Across the 463 products on this site that list Fresh Cucumbers, 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 54.5x more often with Fresh Cucumbers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fresh Cucumbers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 328 | 70.8% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 279 | 60.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 87 | 18.8% | 4.2% |
| Sucralose | 16 | 3.5% | 2.7% |
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 Fresh Cucumbers
Products Containing Fresh Cucumbers
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 463 indexed products containing Fresh Cucumbers:
High-volume peers for Fresh Cucumbers beside “Cassava Flour”
High-volume peers for Fresh Cucumbers: 463 products, mean screening score 75.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cassava Flour · Toasted Sesame Oil · Used To Protect Quality. 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.
Next steps from the Fresh Cucumbers page
Use the 463-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Fresh Cucumbers and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Fresh Cucumbers
How should I read safety signals when Fresh Cucumbers sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
77.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Fresh Cucumbers is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fresh Cucumbers? ▼
Fresh Cucumbers ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,085 of 247,206), appearing in 463 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fresh Cucumbers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fresh Cucumbers appears in 463 products (#1,085 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fresh Cucumbers). 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.