Pecan Nuts

Pecan Nuts appears in 21 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

Pecan Nuts appears in 21 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.

21
catalogued products
#9,037
usage rank of 247,206
12
named brands represented
55%
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.

Pecan Nuts: top-decile catalog footprint (#9,037 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#9,037
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
55%
Mean relative depth 55% across 21 parsed labels, slot 13.0 on average. Pecan Nuts tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 4.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pecan Nuts spans 12 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with BANANA CHIPS; Belgian Chocolate Caramels And Disks; Blueberry & Apple Pie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

12 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 21 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 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 Pecan Nuts

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pecan Nuts
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

Pecan Nuts sits among other busy catalog rows (21 products, mean score 99.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Pecan Nuts evidence

Start from Pecan Nuts's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Pecan Nuts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

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

Pecan Nuts — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pecan Nuts?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pecan Nuts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pecan Nuts?

Pecan Nuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pecan Nuts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pecan Nuts appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pecan Nuts). 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.