Green Onions
Green Onions appears in 731 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 Onions appears in 731 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.
- 731
- catalogued products
- #814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 262
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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: 160 of 731 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 cheese pizza; Alaskan Salmon Cake; Albacore tuna in thai coconut lemongrass to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Green Onions itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
160 of 731 linked records have some flagged component
All 701 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.
Green Onions: top-decile catalog footprint (#814 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #814
- 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
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 733 parsed labels, slot 21.0 on average. Green Onions tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Green Onions
Across the 731 products on this site that list Green Onions, 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 1.8x more often with Green Onions than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Green Onions products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 74 | 10.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 57 | 7.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 44 | 6% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 7 | 1% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 7 | 1% | 0.2% |
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 Onions
Products Containing Green Onions
High-volume slice (16 of 731) for products naming Green Onions:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Icing Sugar”)
High-volume peers for Green Onions: 731 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Icing Sugar · Fruit Juice · Spirulina Extract. 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 Green Onions page
Use the 731-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Green Onions before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Green Onions 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 Onions. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Green Onions? ▼
Green Onions ranks in the top decile by product count (#814 of 247,206), appearing in 731 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Green Onions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Onions appears in 731 products (#814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Onions). 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.