Parsley Flakes

Parsley Flakes appears in 699 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

Parsley Flakes appears in 699 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.

699
catalogued products
#837
usage rank of 247,206
243
named brands represented
81%
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 Parsley Flakes - usage rank #837

Usage rank
#837
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
81%
Averaged label depth puts Parsley Flakes near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 23.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 18.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Parsley Flakes spans 243 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 3 Seed Sweet Pea Crackers; 4c, bread crumbs, seasoned; 4c, bread crumbs, seasoned, salt free when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

243 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 548 of 674 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 Parsley Flakes

Across the 699 products on this site that list Parsley 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.

Caramel Coloring: +1.2ppCaramel Coloring+1.2ppCarrageenan: +0.9ppCarrageenan+0.9ppSodium Nitrite: +0.3ppSodium Nitrite+0.3ppYellow 6: -0.7ppYellow 6-0.7ppYellow 5: -2.4ppYellow 5-2.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Parsley Flakes 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
1.2pp
Carrageenan
0.9pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.3pp
Yellow 6
-0.7pp
Yellow 5
-2.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Parsley Flakes products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 48 6.9% 5.7%
Carrageenan 38 5.4% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 19 2.7% 2.4%
Yellow 6 19 2.7% 3.4%
Yellow 5 17 2.4% 4.8%

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 Parsley Flakes

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Parsley Flakes
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.

Parsley Flakes vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Parsley Flakes: 699 listings averaging 96.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Ferrous Fumarate; Mustard Seeds; Almond.

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 Parsley Flakes page

Start from Parsley Flakes's 699 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Parsley Flakes and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Parsley Flakes next to “Mustard Seeds” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Parsley Flakes — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Parsley Flakes?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Parsley Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#837 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Parsley Flakes?

Parsley Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#837 of 247,206), appearing in 699 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Parsley Flakes so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Parsley Flakes appears in 699 products (#837 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Parsley 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.