Ground Flax Seed
Ground Flax Seed appears in 109 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 Flax Seed appears in 109 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.
- 109
- catalogued products
- #2,950
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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 Flax Seed sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,950 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,950
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 109 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 109 products listing it (mean slot 10.5). Ground Flax Seed usually falls in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Flax Seed spans 42 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with A Real Food Bar; Almond Cherry Granola; Almond Cherry Granola when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
42 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 76 of 106 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 Flax Seed
Products Containing Ground Flax Seed
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 109 indexed products containing Ground Flax Seed:
Ground Flax Seed vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Ground Flax Seed sits among other busy catalog rows (109 products, mean score 98.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Annatto Vegetable Color · B-vitamin · Cayenne Pepper Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Ground Flax Seed evidence
Use the 109-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ground Flax Seed before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Ground Flax Seed next to “B-vitamin” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the 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 Flax Seed? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Flax Seed, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,950 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Flax Seed? ▼
Ground Flax Seed ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,950 of 247,206), appearing in 109 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 Flax Seed so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Flax Seed appears in 109 products (#2,950 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Flax Seed). 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.