Mushroom
Mushroom appears in 399 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
Mushroom appears in 399 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.
- 399
- catalogued products
- #1,192
- usage rank of 247,206
- 151
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
Mushroom sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,192 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,192
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 402 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Averaged label depth puts Mushroom in the lower half of the list (55% of list length, mean slot 19.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 18.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mushroom spans 151 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with A creamy blend of veggies and mozzarella cheese in a crust made with cauliflower bites, veggie & mozzarella; All Natural Chicken Patties; All-Purpose Plant Crumbles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
151 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 342 of 385 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 Mushroom
Across the 399 products on this site that list Mushroom, 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 2.2x more often with Mushroom than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mushroom products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 51 | 12.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 15 | 3.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 2% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 8 | 2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 6 | 1.5% | 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 Mushroom
Products Containing Mushroom
High-volume slice (16 of 399) for products naming Mushroom:
Mushroom vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Mushroom: 399 listings averaging 98.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cultured Part-skim Milk · Red Chili Pepper · Vinegar Solids.
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.
What to do with this Mushroom record
399 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Mushroom are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Mushroom and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Mushroom with a peer such as “Cultured Part-skim Milk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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 Mushroom
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mushroom? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mushroom, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,192 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mushroom? ▼
Mushroom ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,192 of 247,206), appearing in 399 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mushroom so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mushroom appears in 399 products (#1,192 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mushroom). 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.