Macadamia Nuts

Macadamia Nuts appears in 617 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 Nuts appears in 617 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.

617
catalogued products
#919
usage rank of 247,206
223
named brands represented
52%
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.

Macadamia Nuts: top-decile catalog footprint (#919 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#919
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Averaged label depth puts Macadamia Nuts in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 12.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 11.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Macadamia Nuts spans 223 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 7 select, macadamia nut caramel popcorn cluster, vanilla; 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Almond Pieces & Blueberry Granules; Abound Nut Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

223 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 365 of 577 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 Nuts

Across the 617 products on this site that list Macadamia Nuts, 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.

Carrageenan: -1.1ppCarrageenan-1.1ppCaramel Coloring: -2.3ppCaramel Coloring-2.3ppYellow 5: -2.9ppYellow 5-2.9ppSucralose: -1.1ppSucralose-1.1ppYellow 6: -1.8ppYellow 6-1.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Macadamia Nuts products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
-1.1pp
Caramel Coloring
-2.3pp
Yellow 5
-2.9pp
Sucralose
-1.1pp
Yellow 6
-1.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Macadamia Nuts products Share of all products
Carrageenan 21 3.4% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 21 3.4% 5.7%
Yellow 5 12 1.9% 4.8%
Sucralose 10 1.6% 2.7%
Yellow 6 10 1.6% 3.4%

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 Nuts

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Macadamia Nuts
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cocoa Liquor”)

High-volume peers for Macadamia Nuts: 617 products, mean screening score 97.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cocoa Liquor; Source Of Iron; Turmeric Oleoresin. 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.

What to do with this Macadamia Nuts record

617 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Macadamia Nuts are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Macadamia Nuts and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Macadamia Nuts

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Macadamia Nuts?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Macadamia Nuts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#919 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Macadamia Nuts?

Macadamia Nuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#919 of 247,206), appearing in 617 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Macadamia Nuts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Macadamia Nuts appears in 617 products (#919 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Macadamia Nuts). 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.