Ground Sesame
Ground Sesame appears in 308 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 Sesame appears in 308 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.
- 308
- catalogued products
- #1,467
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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 Sesame sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,467 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,467
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 308 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Mean relative depth 36% across 308 parsed labels, slot 6.0 on average. Ground Sesame tends to sit in the upper 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Ground Sesame reaches 54 named brands, most often appears under Condiments, and typically sits in the upper half of the list. Product examples include All natural hummus; Artichoke Spinach Hommus; Artichoke Spinach Hummus. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (164 of 302), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
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 Sesame
Products Containing Ground Sesame
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 308 indexed products containing Ground Sesame:
High-volume peers for Ground Sesame beside “Cashew”
Top-decile company for Ground Sesame: 308 listings averaging 100/100. Nearest count peers include “Cashew”, “Lemon Pulp”, “Succinic Acid”.
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.
Next steps from the Ground Sesame page
Use the 308-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 Sesame to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Ground Sesame with a peer such as “Cashew” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Ground Sesame — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ground Sesame? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Sesame, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,467 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Sesame? ▼
Ground Sesame ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,467 of 247,206), appearing in 308 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Sesame so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Sesame appears in 308 products (#1,467 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Sesame). 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.