Quinoa
Quinoa appears in 1,834 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
Quinoa appears in 1,834 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.
- 1,834
- catalogued products
- #433
- usage rank of 247,206
- 504
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Quinoa - usage rank #433
- Usage rank
- #433
- 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
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Quinoa in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 9.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Quinoa spans 504 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% ancient grain quinoa; 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Mass Gainer Vanilla Milkshake 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.
504 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1143 of 1715 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 Quinoa
Across the 1,834 products on this site that list Quinoa, 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 3.8x more often with Quinoa than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Quinoa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 35 | 1.9% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 26 | 1.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 16 | 0.9% | 4.5% |
| Potassium Iodate | 10 | 0.5% | 0.2% |
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 Quinoa
Products Containing Quinoa
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,834 indexed products containing Quinoa:
High-volume peers for Quinoa beside “Mushrooms”
High-volume peers for Quinoa: 1,834 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Mushrooms”, “Mozzarella Cheese”, “Stabilizer”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Quinoa record
Start from Quinoa's 1,834 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Quinoa and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Quinoa next to “Mozzarella Cheese” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Quinoa — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Quinoa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Quinoa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#433 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Quinoa? ▼
Quinoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#433 of 247,206), appearing in 1,834 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Quinoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Quinoa appears in 1,834 products (#433 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Quinoa). 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.