Onion Juice

Onion Juice appears in 254 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 Juice appears in 254 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.

254
catalogued products
#1,672
usage rank of 247,206
90
named brands represented
60%
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: 51 of 254 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple & Walnut Salad With Chicken; Apple Walnut Salad With Chicken; Asian Style Chicken On Lettuce Mesclun Mix With Teriyaki Chicken, Edamame Salad, Crispy Noodles, Tomatoes & Carrots Salad, Asian Style Chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Onion Juice itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

51 of 254 linked records have some flagged component

All 251 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 Onion Juice - usage rank #1,672

Usage rank
#1,672
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 254 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
60%
Mean relative depth 60% across 254 parsed labels, slot 15.6 on average. Onion Juice tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Juice

Across the 254 products on this site that list Onion Juice, 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 2.1x more often with Onion Juice than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +6.5ppCaramel Coloring+6.5ppPolysorbate 60: +3.3ppPolysorbate 60+3.3ppCarrageenan: +0.2ppCarrageenan+0.2ppSodium Nitrite: +1.5ppSodium Nitrite+1.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Onion Juice products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
6.5pp
Polysorbate 60
3.3pp
Carrageenan
0.2pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Onion Juice products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 31 12.2% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 12 4.7% 1.4%
Carrageenan 12 4.7% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 10 3.9% 2.4%

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 Juice

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Onion Juice
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Onion Juice beside “Mono”

Top-decile company for Onion Juice: 254 listings averaging 97.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Mono · Part-skim Mozzarella Cheese · Resinous Glaze.

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 Juice page

Use the 254-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Onion Juice to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare Onion Juice with a peer such as “Mono” 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. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Onion Juice

Does Onion Juice 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 Onion Juice. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Onion Juice?

Onion Juice ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,672 of 247,206), appearing in 254 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Onion Juice so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Onion Juice appears in 254 products (#1,672 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Onion Juice). 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.