Okra
Okra appears in 231 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
Okra appears in 231 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.
- 231
- catalogued products
- #1,779
- usage rank of 247,206
- 96
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 55 of 231 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All Natural Cut Okra; Ameriacan importing compnay, crunchy dried okra; Baby Cut Okra to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Okra itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
55 of 231 linked records have some flagged component
All 221 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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 Okra - usage rank #1,779
- Usage rank
- #1,779
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 231 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 231 products listing it (mean slot 6.3). Okra usually falls in the upper 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 Okra
Across the 231 products on this site that list Okra, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5.6x more often with Okra than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Okra products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 31 | 13.4% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 6.5% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 8 | 3.5% | 1.3% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 3.5% | 4.5% |
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 Okra
Products Containing Okra
16 busy labels from the 231 indexed products that list Okra:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Coconut Flavor”)
Okra sits among other busy catalog rows (231 products, mean score 96.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Coconut Flavor · Enriched Macaroni · Garlic Salt. 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.
Using the Okra evidence
231 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Okra are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Okra to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Okra — common follow-ups
Does Okra 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 Okra. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Okra? ▼
Okra ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,779 of 247,206), appearing in 231 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Okra so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Okra appears in 231 products (#1,779 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Okra). 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.