Garlic
Garlic carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 40,502 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Garlic appears in 40,502 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 40,502
- catalogued products
- #17
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6,514
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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 Garlic - usage rank #17
- Usage rank
- #17
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Garlic in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 15.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 8391 of 40502 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Hott Sauce; 1-Step Coleslaw Maker Dressing; 1/2 LA Brea Three Cheese Loaf to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Garlic itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
8391 of 40,502 linked records have some flagged component
All 38899 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Garlic
Across the 40,502 products on this site that list Garlic, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Garlic than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Garlic products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 4,253 | 10.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 1,931 | 4.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 1,421 | 3.5% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 967 | 2.4% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 959 | 2.4% | 0.7% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Garlic
Products Containing Garlic
16 busy labels from the 40,502 indexed products that list Garlic:
High-volume peers for Garlic beside “Dextrose”
High-volume peers for Garlic: 40,502 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dextrose; Soybean Oil; Enzymes. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Garlic evidence
Use the 40,502-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Garlic before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Garlic next to “Soybean Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Garlic — common follow-ups
Does Garlic carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Garlic itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Garlic? ▼
Garlic ranks in the top decile by product count (#17 of 247,206), appearing in 40,502 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Garlic do in food? ▼
Garlic is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Garlic). 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.