Pistachios
Pistachios appears in 1,041 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
Pistachios appears in 1,041 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.
- 1,041
- catalogued products
- #648
- usage rank of 247,206
- 343
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
Pistachios: top-decile catalog footprint (#648 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #648
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,043 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 1,043 parsed labels, slot 8.1 on average. Pistachios 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pistachios spans 343 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 180 Snacks, Pistachio Trail Mix Crunch; 5 Yogurt & Oat Bar; 50% Less Salt Dry Roasted & Salted Pistachios when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
343 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 480 of 963 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 Pistachios
Across the 1,041 products on this site that list Pistachios, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pistachios products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 39 | 3.7% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 24 | 2.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 23 | 2.2% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 1.4% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 0.9% | 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 Pistachios
Products Containing Pistachios
High-volume slice (16 of 1,041) for products naming Pistachios:
High-volume peers for Pistachios beside “Whole Egg”
High-volume peers for Pistachios: 1,041 products, mean screening score 98/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Whole Egg; As Preservatives; Beef Fat. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pistachios page
Start from Pistachios's 1,041 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pistachios to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Pistachios with a peer such as “Whole Egg” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Pistachios
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pistachios? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pistachios, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#648 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pistachios? ▼
Pistachios ranks in the top decile by product count (#648 of 247,206), appearing in 1,041 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pistachios so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pistachios appears in 1,041 products (#648 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pistachios). 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.