Peanut Brittle
Peanut Brittle appears in 13 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
Peanut Brittle appears in 13 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.
- 13
- catalogued products
- #12,640
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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.
Peanut Brittle sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#12,640 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #12,640
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Mean relative depth 36% across 13 parsed labels, slot 9.3 on average. Peanut Brittle tends to sit in the upper 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Peanut Brittle spans 7 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Frozen dairy dessert; Midnight Snack Milk Chocolate; Nature's eats, port a, sassy salty trail mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 13 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 13 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 Peanut Brittle
Products Containing Peanut Brittle
A sample of 13 high-volume listings among the 13 indexed products containing Peanut Brittle:
Peanut Brittle vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Peanut Brittle: 13 listings averaging 98.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Peanut Brittle evidence
13 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Peanut Brittle are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Peanut Brittle and read how the term sits on real packages. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Peanut Brittle? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Peanut Brittle, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#12,640 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Peanut Brittle? ▼
Peanut Brittle ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Peanut Brittle so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peanut Brittle appears in 13 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peanut Brittle). 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.