Lettuce
Lettuce appears in 622 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
Lettuce appears in 622 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.
- 622
- catalogued products
- #909
- usage rank of 247,206
- 116
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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: 199 of 622 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% fruit and vegetable juice; 100% juice; 100% juice vegetable from concentrate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 15–100 score range to Lettuce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Sandwiches supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
199 of 622 linked records have some flagged component
All 615 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 15–100 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.
Lettuce sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#909 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #909
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 622 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Mean relative depth 69% across 622 parsed labels, slot 28.3 on average. Lettuce tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Lettuce
Across the 622 products on this site that list 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.5x more often with Lettuce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lettuce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 90 | 14.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 88 | 14.1% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 36 | 5.8% | 4.5% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 19 | 3.1% | 0.2% |
| BHT | 17 | 2.7% | 1.1% |
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 Lettuce
Products Containing Lettuce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 622 indexed products containing Lettuce:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Smoked Paprika”)
Lettuce sits among other busy catalog rows (622 products, mean score 94.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Smoked Paprika · Beef Broth · Beet. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Lettuce record
622 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lettuce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Lettuce 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Lettuce — common follow-ups
Does 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 Lettuce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lettuce? ▼
Lettuce ranks in the top decile by product count (#909 of 247,206), appearing in 622 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lettuce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lettuce appears in 622 products (#909 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.