Pepita Seeds

Pepita Seeds appears in 37 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

Pepita Seeds appears in 37 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.

37
catalogued products
#6,126
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
43%
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.

High-volume listing for Pepita Seeds - usage rank #6,126

Usage rank
#6,126
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Mean relative depth 43% across 37 parsed labels, slot 12.3 on average. Pepita Seeds 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 10.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pepita Seeds spans 6 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Complete salad kit; crafted market beef street tacos; Figgy Pops - Banana-Rama when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

6 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 35 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 Pepita Seeds

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pepita Seeds
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.

High-volume peers for Pepita Seeds

High-volume peers for Pepita Seeds: 37 products, mean screening score 98.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Pepita Seeds record

Use the 37-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Pepita Seeds 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. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Pepita Seeds — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pepita Seeds?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pepita Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pepita Seeds?

Pepita Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pepita Seeds so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pepita Seeds appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pepita Seeds). 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.