Organic Kalamata Olives

Organic Kalamata Olives appears in 364 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

Organic Kalamata Olives appears in 364 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.

364
catalogued products
#1,291
usage rank of 247,206
160
named brands represented
34%
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 Organic Kalamata Olives - usage rank #1,291

Usage rank
#1,291
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
34%
Mean relative depth 34% across 365 parsed labels, slot 10.6 on average. Organic Kalamata Olives 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 3.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Organic Kalamata Olives spans 160 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with Acme, La Brea Olive Loaf; All-Natural Pitted Kalamata Olives; Appetizer olives pitted kalamata with orange zest when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

160 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 203 of 335 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 Organic Kalamata Olives

Across the 364 products on this site that list Organic Kalamata Olives, 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 Organic Kalamata Olives products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 5 1.4% 2.4%
Yellow 5 5 1.4% 4.8%

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 Organic Kalamata Olives

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Organic Kalamata Olives
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.

Organic Kalamata Olives vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Organic Kalamata Olives: 364 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Beta Carotene For Color”, “Calcium Iodate”, “Organic Pea Starch”. 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 Organic Kalamata Olives evidence

Start from Organic Kalamata Olives's 364 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Organic Kalamata Olives 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. 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.

Questions readers ask about Organic Kalamata Olives

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Organic Kalamata Olives?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Organic Kalamata Olives, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,291 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Organic Kalamata Olives?

Organic Kalamata Olives ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,291 of 247,206), appearing in 364 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Organic Kalamata Olives so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Organic Kalamata Olives appears in 364 products (#1,291 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Organic Kalamata Olives). 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.