Oyster Extractives
Oyster Extractives appears in 85 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
Oyster Extractives appears in 85 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.
- 85
- catalogued products
- #3,525
- usage rank of 247,206
- 29
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
72.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Oyster Extractives as the trigger. Open records such as Aqua star, smart seafood sautes, kung pao shrimp; Asian-Style Chicken For Lettuce Wraps; B.B.Q. PORK BAO and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 84 of 84 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.
Oyster Extractives: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,525 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,525
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 85 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Mean relative depth 52% across 85 parsed labels, slot 18.0 on average. Oyster Extractives tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Oyster Extractives
Across the 85 products on this site that list Oyster Extractives, 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 12.8x more often with Oyster Extractives than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Oyster Extractives products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 62 | 72.9% | 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 Oyster Extractives
Products Containing Oyster Extractives
16 busy labels from the 85 indexed products that list Oyster Extractives:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aged Cayenne Pepper”)
Top-decile company for Oyster Extractives: 85 listings averaging 94.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aged Cayenne Pepper · Carotenes · Organic Carrot Concentrate.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Oyster Extractives record
Use the 85-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 Oyster Extractives to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Oyster Extractives next to “Carotenes” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Oyster Extractives sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Oyster Extractives is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Oyster Extractives? ▼
Oyster Extractives ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,525 of 247,206), appearing in 85 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Oyster Extractives so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Oyster Extractives appears in 85 products (#3,525 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oyster Extractives). 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.