Onion Flakes
Onion Flakes appears in 165 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
Onion Flakes appears in 165 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.
- 165
- catalogued products
- #2,208
- usage rank of 247,206
- 53
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
52.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Onion Flakes as the trigger. Open records such as All American Sushi Roll; Bacon Breakfast Roll Ups; Bialy Roll and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 54% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
52.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 135 of 159 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Onion Flakes: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,208 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,208
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 165 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 165 products listing it (mean slot 10.0). Onion Flakes usually falls in the lower 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Onion Flakes
Across the 165 products on this site that list Onion Flakes, 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 7.1x more often with Onion Flakes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Onion Flakes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 56 | 33.9% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 29 | 17.6% | 1.3% |
| Sucralose | 8 | 4.8% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 3.6% | 5.7% |
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 Onion Flakes
Products Containing Onion Flakes
16 busy labels from the 165 indexed products that list Onion Flakes:
Onion Flakes vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Onion Flakes sits among other busy catalog rows (165 products, mean score 88.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Com · Dimethyl Silicone · Organic Grade A Reduced Fat Milk. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Onion Flakes evidence
Start from Onion Flakes's 165 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Onion Flakes before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Onion Flakes with a peer such as “Com” 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Onion Flakes
How should I read safety signals when Onion Flakes sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
52.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Onion Flakes is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Onion Flakes? ▼
Onion Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,208 of 247,206), appearing in 165 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Onion Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Onion Flakes appears in 165 products (#2,208 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Onion Flakes). 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.