Galangal Root
Galangal Root appears in 6 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
Galangal Root appears in 6 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.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- 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.
Galangal Root sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#21,732 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 15.5). Galangal Root 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Galangal Root spans 4 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Ajam Bali; Boemboe voor Rendang vlees; Pride Of Thailand Red Curry Kit when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 4 of 4 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 6 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 Galangal Root
Products Containing Galangal Root
High-volume slice (6 of 6) for products naming Galangal Root:
High-volume peers for Galangal Root
High-volume peers for Galangal Root: 6 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Galangal Root record
Use the 6-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Galangal Root and read how the term sits on real packages. 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. 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 Galangal Root? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Galangal Root, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Galangal Root? ▼
Galangal Root ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Galangal Root so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Galangal Root appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Galangal Root). 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.