Gherkin
Gherkin appears in 11 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
Gherkin appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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 Gherkin - usage rank #14,190
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 11 parsed labels, slot 3.5 on average. Gherkin tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gherkin spans 5 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with Gherkin Stuffed Olives Manzanilla; Marinated Olives; Original Pickle Relish / Condiment when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 11 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 11 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 Gherkin
Products Containing Gherkin
High-volume slice (11 of 11) for products naming Gherkin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Gherkin: 11 listings averaging 98.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Gherkin evidence
Start from Gherkin's 11 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Gherkin 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Gherkin
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gherkin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gherkin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gherkin? ▼
Gherkin ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gherkin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gherkin appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gherkin). 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.