Pickled Ginger

Pickled Ginger appears in 201 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

Pickled Ginger appears in 201 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.

201
catalogued products
#1,934
usage rank of 247,206
21
named brands represented
67%
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: 56 of 201 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12Pc Shrimp Temp Kabuki Roll, Shrimp Temp Kabuki; 12pc shrimp tempura kabuki roll wr; 4pc spicy shrimp inari to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Pickled Ginger itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

56 of 201 linked records have some flagged component

All 199 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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.

Pickled Ginger: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,934 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,934
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 201 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Mean relative depth 67% across 201 parsed labels, slot 28.2 on average. Pickled Ginger 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Pickled Ginger

Across the 201 products on this site that list Pickled Ginger, 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 3.7x more often with Pickled Ginger than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +15.2ppCaramel Coloring+15.2ppBlue 1: +1.3ppBlue 1+1.3ppYellow 5: -0.3ppYellow 5-0.3ppTitanium Dioxide: +0.9ppTitanium Dioxide+0.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Pickled Ginger products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
15.2pp
Blue 1
1.3pp
Yellow 5
-0.3pp
Titanium Dioxide
0.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Pickled Ginger products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 42 20.9% 5.7%
Blue 1 11 5.5% 4.2%
Yellow 5 9 4.5% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 6 3% 2.1%

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 Pickled Ginger

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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pickled Ginger
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 Pickled Ginger beside “Agar Agar”

Pickled Ginger sits among other busy catalog rows (201 products, mean score 95.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Agar Agar”, “Cheddar And Blue Cheese”, “Colors Added”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

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 Pickled Ginger record

Use the 201-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 Pickled Ginger to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Place Pickled Ginger next to “Cheddar And Blue Cheese” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Pickled Ginger — common follow-ups

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Pickled Ginger?

Pickled Ginger ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,934 of 247,206), appearing in 201 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pickled Ginger so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pickled Ginger appears in 201 products (#1,934 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pickled Ginger). 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.