Pea Protein Isolate
Pea Protein Isolate appears in 526 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
Pea Protein Isolate appears in 526 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.
- 526
- catalogued products
- #1,017
- usage rank of 247,206
- 177
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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.
Pea Protein Isolate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,017 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,017
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Mean relative depth 26% across 526 parsed labels, slot 7.2 on average. Pea Protein Isolate tends to sit in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pea Protein Isolate spans 177 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Pea Protein; A blend of pea protein, bamboo fiber, egg white, and golden flaxseed nuggets; Advanced nutrition 100 calorie snacks baked chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
177 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 498 of 519 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 Pea Protein Isolate
Across the 526 products on this site that list Pea Protein Isolate, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 14x more often with Pea Protein Isolate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pea Protein Isolate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 37 | 7% | 0.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 22 | 4.2% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 21 | 4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 19 | 3.6% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 17 | 3.2% | 2.7% |
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 Pea Protein Isolate
Products Containing Pea Protein Isolate
16 busy labels from the 526 indexed products that list Pea Protein Isolate:
High-volume peers for Pea Protein Isolate beside “White Cheddar Cheese”
Pea Protein Isolate sits among other busy catalog rows (526 products, mean score 98.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: White Cheddar Cheese · Tripotassium Phosphate · Ground Beef. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pea Protein Isolate page
Use the 526-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 Pea Protein Isolate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Pea Protein Isolate next to “Tripotassium Phosphate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Pea Protein Isolate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pea Protein Isolate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pea Protein Isolate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,017 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pea Protein Isolate? ▼
Pea Protein Isolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,017 of 247,206), appearing in 526 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pea Protein Isolate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pea Protein Isolate appears in 526 products (#1,017 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pea Protein Isolate). 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.