Pumpkin Seed Protein

Pumpkin Seed Protein appears in 236 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

Pumpkin Seed Protein appears in 236 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.

236
catalogued products
#1,757
usage rank of 247,206
49
named brands represented
27%
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.

Pumpkin Seed Protein: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,757 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,757
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 236 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
27%
Mean relative depth 27% across 236 parsed labels, slot 5.5 on average. Pumpkin Seed Protein 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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 1.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pumpkin Seed Protein spans 49 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with 32g Plant Protein 0g Sugar Chocolate; 32g Plant Protein No Nut Butter Cup; Almond Butter Cup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

49 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 196 of 217 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 Pumpkin Seed Protein

Across the 236 products on this site that list Pumpkin Seed Protein, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 82.2x more often with Pumpkin Seed Protein than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Pumpkin Seed Protein products Share of all products
Monk fruit extract 97 41.1% 0.5%

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 Pumpkin Seed Protein

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pumpkin Seed Protein
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Citrus Extract”)

High-volume peers for Pumpkin Seed Protein: 236 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Citrus Extract · Ground Mustard · Organic Isomalto-oligosaccharides. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Pumpkin Seed Protein record

Start from Pumpkin Seed Protein's 236 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Pumpkin Seed Protein to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Pumpkin Seed Protein with a peer such as “Citrus Extract” 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. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Pumpkin Seed Protein

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pumpkin Seed Protein?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pumpkin Seed Protein, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,757 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Pumpkin Seed Protein?

Pumpkin Seed Protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,757 of 247,206), appearing in 236 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Pumpkin Seed Protein so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pumpkin Seed Protein appears in 236 products (#1,757 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pumpkin Seed Protein). 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.