Laurel
Laurel appears in 42 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
Laurel appears in 42 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.
- 42
- catalogued products
- #5,603
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Laurel: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,603 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,603
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 93 others that also appear in exactly 42 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Laurel in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 17.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Laurel spans 25 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Artichoke and spinach mini calzone, artichoke and spinach; Artichoke Spread In Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Buldak Dumpling, Chicken Flavor when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
25 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 39 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 Laurel
Across the 42 products on this site that list Laurel, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.5x more often with Laurel than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Laurel products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 14.3% | 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 Laurel
Products Containing Laurel
High-volume slice (16 of 42) for products naming Laurel:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Laurel: 42 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Laurel record
Use the 42-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Laurel before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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 Laurel? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Laurel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,603 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Laurel? ▼
Laurel ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,603 of 247,206), appearing in 42 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Laurel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Laurel appears in 42 products (#5,603 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Laurel). 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.