Onion Powder
Onion Powder appears in 22,967 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 Powder appears in 22,967 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.
- 22,967
- catalogued products
- #45
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,533
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 6431 of 22967 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Calorie Guacamole Snack Packs; 100% All Natural Chicken Breast Mini Nuggets Patty Fritters With Rib Meat, Chicken Breast; 100% Beef Corn Dogs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Onion Powder itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
6431 of 22,967 linked records have some flagged component
All 22616 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Onion Powder sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#45 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #45
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Mean relative depth 64% across 22,989 parsed labels, slot 17.3 on average. Onion Powder tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Onion Powder
Across the 22,967 products on this site that list Onion Powder, 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 2.6x more often with Onion Powder than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Onion Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 3,452 | 15% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,002 | 4.4% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 987 | 4.3% | 4.8% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 908 | 4% | 2.4% |
| Red 40 | 877 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
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 Powder
Products Containing Onion Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 22,967) for products naming Onion Powder:
Onion Powder vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Onion Powder: 22,967 products, mean screening score 93.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Sunflower Oil · Baking Soda · Caramel Coloring. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Onion Powder evidence
Use the 22,967-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 Powder 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
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Powder
Does Onion Powder 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 Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Onion Powder? ▼
Onion Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#45 of 247,206), appearing in 22,967 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Onion Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Onion Powder appears in 22,967 products (#45 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Onion Powder). 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.