Ground Cloves
Ground Cloves appears in 107 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
Ground Cloves appears in 107 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.
- 107
- catalogued products
- #2,992
- usage rank of 247,206
- 60
- named brands represented
- 88%
- 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.
Ground Cloves sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,992 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,992
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 107 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 88%
- Averaged label depth puts Ground Cloves near the end of the captured list (88% of list length, mean slot 21.6). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Cloves spans 60 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Allergen, Gourmet Decorated Gingerbread Cookie; Archer farms, pumpkin pie spice scone mix; Asian Style - Sticky Rib Rice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
60 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 105 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ground Cloves
Across the 107 products on this site that list Ground Cloves, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.1x more often with Ground Cloves than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ground Cloves products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 10 | 9.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 6.5% | 5.7% |
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 Ground Cloves
Products Containing Ground Cloves
16 busy labels from the 107 indexed products that list Ground Cloves:
High-volume peers for Ground Cloves beside “Organic Black Tea Leaves”
High-volume peers for Ground Cloves: 107 products, mean screening score 97.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Black Tea Leaves · Chicken Broth Concentrate · Concord Grapes. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Ground Cloves evidence
Use the 107-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ground Cloves to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Ground Cloves next to “Chicken Broth Concentrate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Cloves? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Cloves, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,992 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Cloves? ▼
Ground Cloves ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,992 of 247,206), appearing in 107 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Cloves so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Cloves appears in 107 products (#2,992 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Cloves). 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.