Granola
Granola appears in 690 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
Granola appears in 690 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.
- 690
- catalogued products
- #843
- usage rank of 247,206
- 148
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 256 of 690 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold chewy chocolatey dipped granola bars chocolate chips; Ahold chewy dipped granola bars peanut butter; Almond Granola to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Granola itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
256 of 690 linked records have some flagged component
All 683 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.
Granola sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#843 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #843
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Averaged label depth puts Granola near the top of the captured list (16% of list length, mean slot 5.1). 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 else is usually in the same product as Granola
Across the 690 products on this site that list Granola, 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 3.1x more often with Granola than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Granola products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 123 | 17.8% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 122 | 17.7% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 51 | 7.4% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 16 | 2.3% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 14 | 2% | 4.8% |
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 Granola
Products Containing Granola
16 busy labels from the 690 indexed products that list Granola:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Inositol”)
High-volume peers for Granola: 690 products, mean screening score 94/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Inositol · Potassium Carbonate · Blueberry Puree. 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.
Next steps from the Granola page
Use the 690-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Granola and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Granola with a peer such as “Inositol” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Granola — common follow-ups
Does Granola carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Granola. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Granola? ▼
Granola ranks in the top decile by product count (#843 of 247,206), appearing in 690 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Granola so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Granola appears in 690 products (#843 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Granola). 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.