Parsnips
Parsnips appears in 81 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
Parsnips appears in 81 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.
- 81
- catalogued products
- #3,608
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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: 18 of 81 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All natural & spicy bloody mary mix; All Natural Yogurt; Basque Norte, Marinade In Minutes, Basque to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Parsnips itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18 of 81 linked records have some flagged component
All 69 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
Parsnips sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,608 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,608
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 82 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 82 products listing it (mean slot 12.8). Parsnips usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Parsnips
Across the 81 products on this site that list Parsnips, 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 3.2x more often with Parsnips than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Parsnips products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 18.5% | 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 Parsnips
Products Containing Parsnips
High-volume slice (16 of 81) for products naming Parsnips:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cake Flour”)
Parsnips sits among other busy catalog rows (81 products, mean score 97.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cake Flour; Cotija Cheese; Extra Fancy Durum Flour. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Parsnips page
Start from Parsnips's 81 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Parsnips to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Parsnips 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 Parsnips. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Parsnips? ▼
Parsnips ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,608 of 247,206), appearing in 81 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Parsnips so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Parsnips appears in 81 products (#3,608 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Parsnips). 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.