Macadamia
Macadamia appears in 43 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
Macadamia appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Macadamia - usage rank #5,507
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 43 parsed labels, slot 21.7 on average. Macadamia 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Macadamia spans 24 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Aloha Coconut Macadamia Butter; Aloha Coconut Macadamia Butter; Apple Cinnamon Crisp with Almonds & Walnuts when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 26 of 40 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 Macadamia
Across the 43 products on this site that list Macadamia, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 2.4x more often with Macadamia than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Macadamia products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 11.6% | 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 Macadamia
Products Containing Macadamia
High-volume slice (16 of 43) for products naming Macadamia:
Macadamia vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Macadamia sits among other busy catalog rows (43 products, mean score 92.2/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Macadamia evidence
43 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Macadamia are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Macadamia to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
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 Macadamia? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Macadamia, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,507 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Macadamia? ▼
Macadamia ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 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 Macadamia so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Macadamia appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Macadamia). 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.