Peas
Peas appears in 2,003 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
Peas appears in 2,003 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.
- 2,003
- catalogued products
- #404
- usage rank of 247,206
- 469
- named brands represented
- 35%
- 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.
Peas: top-decile catalog footprint (#404 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #404
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 35%
- Averaged label depth puts Peas in the upper half of the list (35% of list length, mean slot 9.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Peas spans 469 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Veggie Blend; 14 Garden Vegetable Soup; 2 Grass Fed Beef & 2 Free Range Chicken 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.
469 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1052 of 1891 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 Peas
Across the 2,003 products on this site that list Peas, 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 2.2x more often with Peas than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Peas products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 252 | 12.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 72 | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 17 | 0.8% | 1.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 15 | 0.7% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 13 | 0.6% | 1.3% |
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 Peas
Products Containing Peas
High-volume slice (16 of 2,003) for products naming Peas:
Peas vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Peas: 2,003 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Sodium Hexametaphosphate”, “Antioxidant”, “Peaches”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Peas page
Start from Peas's 2,003 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Peas and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Peas next to “Antioxidant” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Peas? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Peas, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#404 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Peas? ▼
Peas ranks in the top decile by product count (#404 of 247,206), appearing in 2,003 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Peas so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peas appears in 2,003 products (#404 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peas). 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.