Mustard Oil
Mustard Oil carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 171 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Mustard Oil appears in 171 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 171
- catalogued products
- #2,157
- usage rank of 247,206
- 75
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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 Mustard Oil - usage rank #2,157
- Usage rank
- #2,157
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 171 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 171 products listing it (mean slot 17.2). Mustard Oil usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 35 of 171 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ancient Harvest, Pasta Meals; Ancient Harvest, Pow!, Power Protein Complete Italiano Pasta Meals; Avocado Oil Mayo - Wasabi to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Mustard Oil itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
35 of 171 linked records have some flagged component
All 164 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Mustard Oil
Across the 171 products on this site that list Mustard Oil, 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 Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mustard Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 15.8% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 3.5% | 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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Oil
Products Containing Mustard Oil
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 171 indexed products containing Mustard Oil:
Mustard Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Mustard Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (171 products, mean score 97.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Banana Powder”, “Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine”, “Mango Puree Concentrate”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Mustard Oil page
Use the 171-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Mustard Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Mustard Oil next to “Halved Cherries Artificially Colored Red With Carmine” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Mustard Oil
Does Mustard Oil carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Mustard Oil itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mustard Oil? ▼
Mustard Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,157 of 247,206), appearing in 171 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Mustard Oil do in food? ▼
Mustard Oil is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mustard Oil). 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.