Ghee
Ghee appears in 144 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
Ghee appears in 144 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.
- 144
- catalogued products
- #2,409
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Ghee - usage rank #2,409
- Usage rank
- #2,409
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 145 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Ghee in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 17.9). 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: Ghee spans 43 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 365 everyday value, tandoori naan, roasted garlic; 365 everyday value, tandoori whole wheat naan; Artisan garlic naan bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 117 of 137 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 Ghee
Across the 144 products on this site that list Ghee, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 15.2x more often with Ghee than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ghee products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 11 | 7.6% | 0.5% |
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 Ghee
Products Containing Ghee
16 busy labels from the 144 indexed products that list Ghee:
High-volume peers for Ghee beside “Cajun Seasoning”
Ghee sits among other busy catalog rows (144 products, mean score 99.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Cajun Seasoning · Cholesterol · From Chicory Root. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Ghee page
144 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ghee are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ghee to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Ghee next to “Cholesterol” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ghee — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ghee? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ghee, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,409 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ghee? ▼
Ghee ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,409 of 247,206), appearing in 144 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ghee so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ghee appears in 144 products (#2,409 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ghee). 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.