Mustard Seeds
Mustard Seeds appears in 697 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 Seeds appears in 697 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.
- 697
- catalogued products
- #838
- usage rank of 247,206
- 244
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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: 150 of 697 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 Quinoa and Rice Protein Burgers; Achaar Pickel Mango Cut; All Purpose Seasoning to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Mustard Seeds 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.
150 of 697 linked records have some flagged component
All 663 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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.
Mustard Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#838 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #838
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Mean relative depth 51% across 697 parsed labels, slot 12.1 on average. Mustard Seeds tends to sit in the lower 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 Mustard Seeds
Across the 697 products on this site that list Mustard Seeds, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 1.9x more often with Mustard Seeds than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mustard Seeds products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 62 | 8.9% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 40 | 5.7% | 1.3% |
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 4.6% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 3% | 2.4% |
| Sucralose | 16 | 2.3% | 2.7% |
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 Seeds
Products Containing Mustard Seeds
High-volume slice (16 of 697) for products naming Mustard Seeds:
Mustard Seeds vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Mustard Seeds: 697 products, mean screening score 95.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Almond”, “Carrot Powder”, “Tomato Sauce”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Mustard Seeds record
Use the 697-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 Mustard Seeds to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Mustard Seeds next to “Carrot Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Mustard Seeds — common follow-ups
Does Mustard Seeds 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 Seeds. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mustard Seeds? ▼
Mustard Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#838 of 247,206), appearing in 697 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mustard Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mustard Seeds appears in 697 products (#838 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mustard Seeds). 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.