Golden Flaxseed
Golden Flaxseed appears in 67 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
Golden Flaxseed appears in 67 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.
- 67
- catalogued products
- #4,097
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
Golden Flaxseed: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,097 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,097
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Averaged label depth puts Golden Flaxseed in the lower half of the list (54% of list length, mean slot 10.4). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Golden Flaxseed spans 28 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Food, Choco Smoothie Powder Base; Apple Cinnamon; Bites Dark Chocolate + Coconut when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
28 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 63 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 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 Golden Flaxseed
Products Containing Golden Flaxseed
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 67 indexed products containing Golden Flaxseed:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Acesulfame”)
Top-decile company for Golden Flaxseed: 67 listings averaging 99.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Acesulfame”, “Added To Promote Color Retention”, “Brandy”.
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.
What to do with this Golden Flaxseed record
Use the 67-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Golden Flaxseed and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Golden Flaxseed next to “Added To Promote Color Retention” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Golden Flaxseed — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Golden Flaxseed? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Golden Flaxseed, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,097 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Golden Flaxseed? ▼
Golden Flaxseed ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Golden Flaxseed so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Golden Flaxseed appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Golden Flaxseed). 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.