Potatoes
Potatoes appears in 9,190 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
Potatoes appears in 9,190 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.
- 9,190
- catalogued products
- #132
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,210
- named brands represented
- 9%
- 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.
Potatoes: top-decile catalog footprint (#132 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #132
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 9%
- Mean relative depth 9% across 9,322 parsed labels, slot 4.0 on average. Potatoes tends to sit near the top of the captured 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 19.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potatoes spans 1210 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 10 Aloo Puri; 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco; 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil Crisps when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1210 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6883 of 8817 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 Potatoes
Across the 9,190 products on this site that list Potatoes, 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 1.6x more often with Potatoes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potatoes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 866 | 9.4% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 292 | 3.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 287 | 3.1% | 3.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 233 | 2.5% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 205 | 2.2% | 4.5% |
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 Potatoes
Products Containing Potatoes
High-volume slice (16 of 9,190) for products naming Potatoes:
High-volume peers for Potatoes beside “Carrots”
High-volume peers for Potatoes: 9,190 products, mean screening score 95.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Carrots”, “Vanilla”, “Ferrous Sulfate”. 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.
Using the Potatoes evidence
Start from Potatoes's 9,190 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potatoes before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potatoes — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Potatoes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Potatoes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#132 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potatoes? ▼
Potatoes ranks in the top decile by product count (#132 of 247,206), appearing in 9,190 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potatoes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potatoes appears in 9,190 products (#132 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potatoes). 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.