Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba carries a source-backed screening score of 1/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Ginkgo biloba appears in 7 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Avoid.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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 Ginkgo biloba - usage rank #19,546
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7 products listing it (mean slot 13.4). Ginkgo biloba usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ginkgo biloba spans 5 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 100& Juice, Cranberry Raspberry; Grape memory kombucha; Lean Protein Organic Tri-blend Protein when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 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 7 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.
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How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Ginkgo biloba
Products Containing Ginkgo biloba
High-volume slice (7 of 7) for products naming Ginkgo biloba:
Ginkgo biloba vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Ginkgo biloba sits among other busy catalog rows (7 products, mean score 97.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Ginkgo biloba page
7 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ginkgo biloba are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ginkgo biloba before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Ginkgo biloba — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Ginkgo biloba? ▼
Ginkgo biloba has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 1/5. CSPI rates it "Avoid." With only 14.3% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ginkgo biloba? ▼
Ginkgo biloba ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ginkgo biloba do in food? ▼
Ginkgo biloba is recorded as a other in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ginkgo biloba). 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.