Fresh Onions
Fresh Onions appears in 408 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 Onions appears in 408 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.
- 408
- catalogued products
- #1,177
- usage rank of 247,206
- 158
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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 Fresh Onions - usage rank #1,177
- Usage rank
- #1,177
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 409 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Averaged label depth puts Fresh Onions in the upper half of the list (34% of list length, mean slot 5.9). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fresh Onions spans 158 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with All Natural; All Natural Tomato Sauce; All Natural Vodka Pasta Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
158 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 262 of 381 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 Fresh Onions
Across the 408 products on this site that list Fresh Onions, 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 Fresh Onions products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 1.2% | 1.3% |
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 Onions
Products Containing Fresh Onions
High-volume slice (16 of 408) for products naming Fresh Onions:
High-volume peers for Fresh Onions beside “Water Chestnuts”
Fresh Onions sits among other busy catalog rows (408 products, mean score 99.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Water Chestnuts · Ginger Powder · Modified Palm And Palm Kernel Oils. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Fresh Onions record
408 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Fresh Onions are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Fresh Onions and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Fresh Onions with a peer such as “Water Chestnuts” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Fresh Onions? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Fresh Onions, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,177 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fresh Onions? ▼
Fresh Onions ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,177 of 247,206), appearing in 408 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fresh Onions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fresh Onions appears in 408 products (#1,177 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fresh Onions). 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.