Kale
Kale appears in 2,033 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
Kale appears in 2,033 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.
- 2,033
- catalogued products
- #401
- usage rank of 247,206
- 563
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Kale: top-decile catalog footprint (#401 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #401
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 2,034 parsed labels, slot 12.4 on average. Kale tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Kale spans 563 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% cold pressed huice green lemonade; 12 Organic Protein Bars Variety Pack - Peanut Butter, Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter with Sea Salt; 17 Green Easy Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
563 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1132 of 1835 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 Kale
Across the 2,033 products on this site that list Kale, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 9.4x more often with Kale than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Kale products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 96 | 4.7% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 46 | 2.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 43 | 2.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 13 | 0.6% | 2.4% |
| Sucralose | 13 | 0.6% | 2.7% |
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 Kale
Products Containing Kale
16 busy labels from the 2,033 indexed products that list Kale:
Kale vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Kale: 2,033 listings averaging 99.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Cayenne Pepper”, “Tbhq”, “Vitamin A”.
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.
Next steps from the Kale page
Start from Kale's 2,033 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Kale to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Kale with a peer such as “Cayenne Pepper” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Kale? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Kale, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#401 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Kale? ▼
Kale ranks in the top decile by product count (#401 of 247,206), appearing in 2,033 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 Kale so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Kale appears in 2,033 products (#401 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Kale). 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.