Dehydrated Fried Onion

Dehydrated Fried Onion appears in 39 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

Dehydrated Fried Onion appears in 39 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.

39
catalogued products
#5,893
usage rank of 247,206
19
named brands represented
55%
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.

Dehydrated Fried Onion: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,893 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,893
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
55%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 39 products listing it (mean slot 16.2). Dehydrated Fried Onion usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 17.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dehydrated Fried Onion spans 19 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Chef Special Sushi Combo; Chicken Fried Rice; Chili Oil with Crunchy Garlic when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

19 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 35 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 Dehydrated Fried Onion

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dehydrated Fried Onion
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Dehydrated Fried Onion vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Dehydrated Fried Onion: 39 products, mean screening score 96.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Dehydrated Fried Onion evidence

39 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dehydrated Fried Onion are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Dehydrated Fried Onion to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Dehydrated Fried Onion — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dehydrated Fried Onion?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dehydrated Fried Onion, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,893 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dehydrated Fried Onion?

Dehydrated Fried Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dehydrated Fried Onion so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dehydrated Fried Onion appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dehydrated Fried Onion). 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.