Iceberg Lettuce
Iceberg Lettuce appears in 217 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
Iceberg Lettuce appears in 217 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.
- 217
- catalogued products
- #1,845
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 65 of 217 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American Blend; American blend romaine lettuce; American blend romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, carrots, red cabbage, radishes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 60–100 score range to Iceberg Lettuce itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
65 of 217 linked records have some flagged component
All 210 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 60–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Iceberg Lettuce - usage rank #1,845
- Usage rank
- #1,845
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 217 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 8%
- Averaged label depth puts Iceberg Lettuce near the top of the captured list (8% of list length, mean slot 3.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Iceberg Lettuce
Across the 217 products on this site that list Iceberg Lettuce, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 7.1x more often with Iceberg Lettuce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Iceberg Lettuce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 37 | 17.1% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 31 | 14.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 5.5% | 5.7% |
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 Iceberg Lettuce
Products Containing Iceberg Lettuce
16 busy labels from the 217 indexed products that list Iceberg Lettuce:
Iceberg Lettuce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Iceberg Lettuce sits among other busy catalog rows (217 products, mean score 95.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Cheese Sauce Mix”, “Citric”, “Disodium Succinate”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Iceberg Lettuce page
Start from Iceberg Lettuce's 217 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Iceberg Lettuce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Iceberg Lettuce with a peer such as “Cheese Sauce Mix” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Iceberg Lettuce
Does Iceberg Lettuce carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Iceberg Lettuce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Iceberg Lettuce? ▼
Iceberg Lettuce ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,845 of 247,206), appearing in 217 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 Iceberg Lettuce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Iceberg Lettuce appears in 217 products (#1,845 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Iceberg Lettuce). 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.