Potato
Potato appears in 1,419 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
Potato appears in 1,419 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.
- 1,419
- catalogued products
- #530
- usage rank of 247,206
- 492
- named brands represented
- 32%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 340 of 1419 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Veggie Blend; 3 Min. Curry Sauce (Spicy); 365 everyday value, beef & barley soup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potato itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
340 of 1,419 linked records have some flagged component
All 1370 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Potato sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#530 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #530
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Mean relative depth 32% across 1,424 parsed labels, slot 10.0 on average. Potato tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Potato
Across the 1,419 products on this site that list Potato, 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 Potato products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 125 | 8.8% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 101 | 7.1% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 100 | 7% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 63 | 4.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 55 | 3.9% | 3.4% |
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 Potato
Products Containing Potato
High-volume slice (16 of 1,419) for products naming Potato:
High-volume peers for Potato beside “Vitamin B5”
High-volume peers for Potato: 1,419 products, mean screening score 92.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Vitamin B5”, “Garlic Puree”, “Sodium Bisulfite”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Potato page
Use the 1,419-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Potato before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Potato next to “Garlic Puree” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Potato 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 Potato. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potato? ▼
Potato ranks in the top decile by product count (#530 of 247,206), appearing in 1,419 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potato so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato appears in 1,419 products (#530 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato). 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.