Green Onion
Green Onion appears in 1,727 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
Green Onion appears in 1,727 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.
- 1,727
- catalogued products
- #450
- usage rank of 247,206
- 478
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 486 of 1727 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A taste of china, sweet and sour rice, sweet and sour, sweet and sour; Adobo Salmon With Black Beans & Rice; Ahí Tuna Spicy Poke to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Green Onion itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
486 of 1,727 linked records have some flagged component
All 1676 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.
High-volume listing for Green Onion - usage rank #450
- Usage rank
- #450
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,751 products listing it (mean slot 22.6). Green Onion 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.
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 Green Onion
Across the 1,727 products on this site that list Green Onion, 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 2.2x more often with Green Onion than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Green Onion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 220 | 12.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 181 | 10.5% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 65 | 3.8% | 2.4% |
| TBHQ | 45 | 2.6% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 23 | 1.3% | 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 Green Onion
Products Containing Green Onion
16 busy labels from the 1,727 indexed products that list Green Onion:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Whole Grain Wheat”)
Top-decile company for Green Onion: 1,727 listings averaging 96.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Whole Grain Wheat · Coffee · Mayonnaise.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Green Onion record
Use the 1,727-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Green Onion and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Green Onion with a peer such as “Whole Grain Wheat” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Green Onion — common follow-ups
Does Green Onion 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 Onion. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Green Onion? ▼
Green Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#450 of 247,206), appearing in 1,727 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Green Onion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Onion appears in 1,727 products (#450 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Onion). 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.