Green Leeks

Green Leeks appears in 4 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.

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What the data can answer

Green Leeks appears in 4 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.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
52%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Black Bean Hummus; Vegetable hummus; Vegetable Hummus to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Green Leeks itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 3 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 3, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.

Green Leeks ranks above 88.3% of catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4 products listing it (mean slot 12.8). Green Leeks usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Green Leeks

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 4 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Green Leeks Black Bean HummusVegetable hummusVegetable HummusVegetable with barley soup mix
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Products Containing Green Leeks

Full indexed set for Green Leeks — 4 products:

Black Bean Hummus
Wegmans
100/100
Vegetable hummus
Wegmans
100/100
Vegetable Hummus
Wegmans
100/100
Vegetable with barley soup mix
Kedem
95/100
Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Parallel catalog profiles to Green Leeks

Peer axes for Green Leeks: 4 products · mean score 98.8/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Green Leeks evidence

Start from Green Leeks's 4 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Green Leeks

Does Green Leeks 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 Green Leeks. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Green Leeks show up across the catalog? ▼

Green Leeks sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Green Leeks so common on ingredient lists? ▼

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Green Leeks. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Leeks). 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.