Ground Nutmeg

Ground Nutmeg appears in 183 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 Nutmeg appears in 183 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.

183
catalogued products
#2,060
usage rank of 247,206
70
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 Nutmeg: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,060 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,060
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 183 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
88%
Mean relative depth 88% across 183 parsed labels, slot 20.5 on average. Ground Nutmeg tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 13.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Nutmeg spans 70 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Alfredo Parmesan Cream Sauce; Alfredo with Roasted Garlic; Allergen, Gourmet Decorated Gingerbread Cookie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

70 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 114 of 173 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 Nutmeg

Across the 183 products on this site that list Ground Nutmeg, 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: -0.1ppCarrageenan-0.1ppSodium Nitrite: +1.4ppSodium Nitrite+1.4ppCaramel Coloring: -2.4ppCaramel Coloring-2.4ppRed 40: -2.7ppRed 40-2.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Ground Nutmeg products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
-0.1pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.4pp
Caramel Coloring
-2.4pp
Red 40
-2.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Ground Nutmeg products Share of all products
Carrageenan 8 4.4% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 7 3.8% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 6 3.3% 5.7%
Red 40 5 2.7% 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 Nutmeg

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Ground Nutmeg
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Ground Nutmeg beside “Organic Apple Fiber”

High-volume peers for Ground Nutmeg: 183 products, mean screening score 96.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Apple Fiber”, “Cage-free Eggs”, “Dehydrated Cane Juice”. 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.

Using the Ground Nutmeg evidence

Use the 183-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Ground Nutmeg and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • 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. 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 Nutmeg?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Nutmeg, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,060 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Nutmeg?

Ground Nutmeg ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,060 of 247,206), appearing in 183 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Ground Nutmeg so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Nutmeg appears in 183 products (#2,060 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Nutmeg). 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.