Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise appears in 1,731 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
Mayonnaise appears in 1,731 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.
- 1,731
- catalogued products
- #453
- usage rank of 247,206
- 379
- named brands represented
- 25%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 479 of 1731 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A Classic, Prepared With Whole Eggs, Swiss Cheese & Savory Bacon Quiche Lorraine, Whole Eggs, Swiss Cheese & Savory Bacon; Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Fresh Smoked Whitefish Salad; Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Smoked Fish Salad to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Mayonnaise itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
479 of 1,731 linked records have some flagged component
All 1706 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Mayonnaise - usage rank #453
- Usage rank
- #453
- 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
- 25%
- Mean relative depth 25% across 1,731 parsed labels, slot 10.9 on average. Mayonnaise tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Mayonnaise
Across the 1,731 products on this site that list Mayonnaise, 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 shows up about 2.3x more often with Mayonnaise than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mayonnaise products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 179 | 10.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 123 | 7.1% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 101 | 5.8% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 67 | 3.9% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 49 | 2.8% | 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 Mayonnaise
Products Containing Mayonnaise
High-volume slice (16 of 1,731) for products naming Mayonnaise:
High-volume peers for Mayonnaise beside “Skim Milk Powder”
High-volume peers for Mayonnaise: 1,731 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Skim Milk Powder · Whole Grain Wheat · Coffee. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Mayonnaise evidence
Use the 1,731-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Mayonnaise to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Mayonnaise 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 Mayonnaise. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mayonnaise? ▼
Mayonnaise ranks in the top decile by product count (#453 of 247,206), appearing in 1,731 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mayonnaise so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mayonnaise appears in 1,731 products (#453 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mayonnaise). 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.