Ground Spices
Ground Spices 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 Spices 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
- 24
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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 Spices - 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
- 51%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 35 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Ground Spices 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Spices spans 24 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 555 sardines (r) 425g; 8 Fresh Herb Aromatic Falafels; Beef Pho Soup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 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 Spices
Products Containing Ground Spices
16 busy labels from the 35 indexed products that list Ground Spices:
Ground Spices vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Ground Spices: 35 listings averaging 98.4/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Ground Spices evidence
Use the 35-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ground Spices before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open 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 Spices? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Spices, 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 Spices? ▼
Ground Spices ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Spices so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Spices appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Spices). 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.