Octopus
Octopus appears in 37 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
Octopus appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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 Octopus - usage rank #6,126
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 8%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 37 products listing it (mean slot 2.2). Octopus usually falls near the top of the captured 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Octopus spans 19 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Aqua star, seafood medley; Aqua star, seafood medley; Bajamar, octopus in marinera sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 34 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.
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 Octopus
Products Containing Octopus
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 37 indexed products containing Octopus:
Octopus vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Octopus sits among other busy catalog rows (37 products, mean score 98.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Octopus record
37 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Octopus are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Octopus and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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.
Octopus — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Octopus? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Octopus, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Octopus? ▼
Octopus ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Octopus so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Octopus appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Octopus). 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.