Olives
Olives appears in 1,084 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
Olives appears in 1,084 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.
- 1,084
- catalogued products
- #630
- usage rank of 247,206
- 334
- named brands represented
- 25%
- 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 Olives - usage rank #630
- Usage rank
- #630
- 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
- 25%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,088 products listing it (mean slot 9.4). Olives 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.
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 10.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Olives spans 334 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with 3 Greens Pesto; 8 Potato Balls; Acme, La Brea Olive Loaf when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
334 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 565 of 1021 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 Olives
Across the 1,084 products on this site that list Olives, 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 3x more often with Olives than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Olives products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 77 | 7.1% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 56 | 5.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 53 | 4.9% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 1.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 1.2% | 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 Olives
Products Containing Olives
High-volume slice (16 of 1,084) for products naming Olives:
High-volume peers for Olives beside “Nonfat Milk Solids”
Top-decile company for Olives: 1,084 listings averaging 96.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Nonfat Milk Solids; Almond Butter; Anchovies.
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.
What to do with this Olives record
Start from Olives's 1,084 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Olives before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Olives with a peer such as “Nonfat Milk Solids” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Olives — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Olives? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Olives, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#630 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Olives? ▼
Olives ranks in the top decile by product count (#630 of 247,206), appearing in 1,084 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Olives so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Olives appears in 1,084 products (#630 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Olives). 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.