Nutmeg Oil

Nutmeg Oil appears in 67 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

Nutmeg Oil appears in 67 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.

67
catalogued products
#4,097
usage rank of 247,206
21
named brands represented
89%
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.

Nutmeg Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,097 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,097
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
89%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 67 products listing it (mean slot 37.0). Nutmeg 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.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Nutmeg Oil spans 21 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Asian Kitchen Meal Bowl Orange Chicken; Assorted Donut Holes; Assorted With Frosted Soft'Ees Donuts, Plain, Powdered, Frosted when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

21 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 60 of 67 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 Nutmeg Oil

Across the 67 products on this site that list Nutmeg 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 26.6x more often with Nutmeg Oil than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Nutmeg Oil products Share of all products
Polysorbate 60 25 37.3% 1.4%

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 Nutmeg Oil

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Nutmeg Oil
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Nutmeg Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Nutmeg Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (67 products, mean score 99.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Acesulfame”, “Added To Promote Color Retention”, “Brandy”. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Nutmeg Oil page

Start from Nutmeg Oil's 67 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Nutmeg Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Compare Nutmeg Oil with a peer such as “Acesulfame” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open 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 Nutmeg Oil?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Nutmeg Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,097 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Nutmeg Oil?

Nutmeg Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Nutmeg Oil so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Nutmeg Oil appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Nutmeg 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.