Ground Ginger
Ground Ginger appears in 321 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 Ginger appears in 321 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.
- 321
- catalogued products
- #1,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 155
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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 Ginger: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,420 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 321 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 321 products listing it (mean slot 16.4). Ground Ginger 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Ginger spans 155 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with All natural & spicy bloody mary mix; Allergen, Gourmet Decorated Gingerbread Cookie; Alpina, greek nonfat yogurt, artisan granolas, mango when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
155 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 221 of 307 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 Ginger
Across the 321 products on this site that list Ground Ginger, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ground Ginger products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 25 | 7.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 9 | 2.8% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 2.5% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 2.2% | 5.4% |
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 Ginger
Products Containing Ground Ginger
High-volume slice (16 of 321) for products naming Ground Ginger:
Ground Ginger vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Ground Ginger sits among other busy catalog rows (321 products, mean score 97/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Fennel Seed · High Oleic Canola · Brown Cane Sugar. 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 Ginger evidence
Use the 321-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 Ginger to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Ground Ginger with a peer such as “Fennel Seed” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
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 Ginger? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Ginger, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,420 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Ginger? ▼
Ground Ginger ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,420 of 247,206), appearing in 321 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Ginger so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Ginger appears in 321 products (#1,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Ginger). 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.