Peanuts

Peanuts appears in 10,627 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

Peanuts appears in 10,627 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.

10,627
catalogued products
#109
usage rank of 247,206
1,896
named brands represented
30%
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: 2624 of 10627 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Lactose Free Ice Cream; 100% Natural Fruit And Nutty Layered Granola Bar; 100% natural honey crunchy peanut butter spread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Peanuts itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

2624 of 10,627 linked records have some flagged component

All 10332 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

Peanuts: top-decile catalog footprint (#109 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#109
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
30%
Averaged label depth puts Peanuts in the upper half of the list (30% of list length, mean slot 8.0). 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 else is usually in the same product as Peanuts

Across the 10,627 products on this site that list Peanuts, 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. Yellow 6 shows up about 2.4x more often with Peanuts than in the catalogue at large.

Yellow 6: +4.7ppYellow 6+4.7ppYellow 5: +3.2ppYellow 5+3.2ppRed 40: +2.3ppRed 40+2.3ppBlue 1: +2.7ppBlue 1+2.7ppCarrageenan: +1.8ppCarrageenan+1.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Peanuts products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Yellow 6
4.7pp
Yellow 5
3.2pp
Red 40
2.3pp
Blue 1
2.7pp
Carrageenan
1.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Peanuts products Share of all products
Yellow 6 858 8.1% 3.4%
Yellow 5 853 8% 4.8%
Red 40 815 7.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 737 6.9% 4.2%
Carrageenan 671 6.3% 4.5%

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 Peanuts

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 60708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Peanuts
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Wheat Gluten”)

Top-decile company for Peanuts: 10,627 listings averaging 90.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Wheat Gluten · Cinnamon · Dehydrated Parsley.

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.

Using the Peanuts evidence

Use the 10,627-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 Peanuts to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare Peanuts with a peer such as “Wheat Gluten” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Peanuts 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 Peanuts. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Peanuts?

Peanuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#109 of 247,206), appearing in 10,627 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Peanuts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peanuts appears in 10,627 products (#109 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peanuts). 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.