Mung Bean Sprouts
Mung Bean Sprouts appears in 25 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
Mung Bean Sprouts appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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 Mung Bean Sprouts - usage rank #8,001
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 25 products listing it (mean slot 6.4). Mung Bean Sprouts usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mung Bean Sprouts spans 14 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bean sprouts; Cascadian farm organic, organic thai - style stirfry blend; Chicken Pad Thai Roasted White Meat Chicken In A Sweet And Tangy Sauce With Rice Noodles, Bean Sprouts, Egg, And Carrots, Chicken Pad Thai when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 20 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.
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 Mung Bean Sprouts
Products Containing Mung Bean Sprouts
16 busy labels from the 25 indexed products that list Mung Bean Sprouts:
High-volume peers for Mung Bean Sprouts
Top-decile company for Mung Bean Sprouts: 25 listings averaging 99.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Mung Bean Sprouts record
Use the 25-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Mung Bean Sprouts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the 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 Mung Bean Sprouts? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mung Bean Sprouts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mung Bean Sprouts? ▼
Mung Bean Sprouts ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 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 Mung Bean Sprouts so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mung Bean Sprouts appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mung Bean Sprouts). 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.