Ground Fennel
Ground Fennel appears in 35 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 Fennel appears in 35 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.
- 35
- catalogued products
- #6,340
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Ground Fennel - usage rank #6,340
- Usage rank
- #6,340
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Mean relative depth 70% across 35 parsed labels, slot 28.1 on average. Ground Fennel 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Fennel spans 20 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Asian Style - Sticky Rib Rice; Cayenne beef bar with uncured bacon, cayenne, smoke; Chinese style five spice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 29 of 33 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.
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 Fennel
Products Containing Ground Fennel
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 35 indexed products containing Ground Fennel:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Ground Fennel: 35 listings averaging 98.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Ground Fennel record
Use the 35-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 Fennel to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ground Fennel — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Fennel? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Fennel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,340 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Fennel? ▼
Ground Fennel ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Fennel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Fennel appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Fennel). 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.