Plantain
Plantain appears in 56 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
Plantain appears in 56 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.
- 56
- catalogued products
- #4,615
- usage rank of 247,206
- 31
- named brands represented
- 13%
- 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.
Plantain sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,615 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,615
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 13%
- Mean relative depth 13% across 56 parsed labels, slot 3.1 on average. Plantain tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Plantain spans 31 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Chile Picante Flavored Plantain Chips (Sunflower Oil); Cookie Bites Red Velvet; Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Heart when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
31 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 49 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 Plantain
Products Containing Plantain
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 56 indexed products containing Plantain:
High-volume peers for Plantain beside “Almond Base”
Plantain sits among other busy catalog rows (56 products, mean score 98.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Almond Base”, “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture”, “Beta-carotene For Color”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Plantain evidence
Start from Plantain's 56 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Plantain before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Plantain with a peer such as “Almond Base” 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Plantain — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Plantain? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Plantain, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,615 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Plantain? ▼
Plantain ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Plantain so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Plantain appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Plantain). 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.