Onion Flavor
Onion Flavor appears in 134 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 Flavor appears in 134 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.
- 134
- catalogued products
- #2,547
- usage rank of 247,206
- 68
- named brands represented
- 80%
- 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 Onion Flavor - usage rank #2,547
- Usage rank
- #2,547
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 134 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 80%
- Mean relative depth 80% across 134 parsed labels, slot 22.0 on average. Onion Flavor tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Onion Flavor spans 68 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, barbecue sauce; Always save, mixed vegetables; Bacon and Carmelized onion sausage when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
68 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 134 of 134 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 Onion Flavor
Across the 134 products on this site that list Onion Flavor, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Onion Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Onion Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 11.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 3.7% | 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 Onion Flavor
Products Containing Onion Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 134 indexed products containing Onion Flavor:
Onion Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Onion Flavor: 134 products, mean screening score 98.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acide Citrique; Aged Red Peppers; Black Pepper Extract. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Onion Flavor page
Start from Onion Flavor's 134 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Onion Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Onion Flavor with a peer such as “Acide Citrique” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Onion Flavor? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Onion Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,547 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Onion Flavor? ▼
Onion Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,547 of 247,206), appearing in 134 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Onion Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Onion Flavor appears in 134 products (#2,547 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Onion Flavor). 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.