Mustard
Mustard appears in 2,894 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
Mustard appears in 2,894 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.
- 2,894
- catalogued products
- #315
- usage rank of 247,206
- 956
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 959 of 2894 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Grass Fed Wagyu Beef Uncured Hotdogs; 20oz Vegetable Tray SSK; 21 Seasoning Salute to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Mustard itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
959 of 2,894 linked records have some flagged component
All 2807 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 Mustard - usage rank #315
- Usage rank
- #315
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,897 products listing it (mean slot 16.2). Mustard usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Mustard
Across the 2,894 products on this site that list Mustard, 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 2.8x more often with Mustard than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mustard products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 453 | 15.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 307 | 10.6% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 130 | 4.5% | 1.3% |
| Carrageenan | 95 | 3.3% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 95 | 3.3% | 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 Mustard
Products Containing Mustard
16 busy labels from the 2,894 indexed products that list Mustard:
High-volume peers for Mustard beside “Acetic Acid”
Top-decile company for Mustard: 2,894 listings averaging 94.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Acetic Acid”, “Safflower Oil”, “Lecithin”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Mustard page
2,894 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Mustard are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Mustard before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Mustard 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 Mustard. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mustard? ▼
Mustard ranks in the top decile by product count (#315 of 247,206), appearing in 2,894 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mustard so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mustard appears in 2,894 products (#315 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mustard). 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.