Romaine Lettuce
Romaine Lettuce appears in 821 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
Romaine Lettuce appears in 821 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.
- 821
- catalogued products
- #750
- usage rank of 247,206
- 129
- named brands represented
- 14%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 302 of 821 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, romaine hearts; American blend romaine lettuce; American blend romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, carrots, red cabbage, radishes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Romaine Lettuce itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Salted-snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
302 of 821 linked records have some flagged component
All 800 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.
Romaine Lettuce: top-decile catalog footprint (#750 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #750
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 14%
- Averaged label depth puts Romaine Lettuce near the top of the captured list (14% of list length, mean slot 5.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Romaine Lettuce
Across the 821 products on this site that list Romaine Lettuce, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3x more often with Romaine Lettuce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Romaine Lettuce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 111 | 13.5% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 106 | 12.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 95 | 11.6% | 2.4% |
| TBHQ | 35 | 4.3% | 0.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 27 | 3.3% | 1.4% |
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 Romaine Lettuce
Products Containing Romaine Lettuce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 821 indexed products containing Romaine Lettuce:
High-volume peers for Romaine Lettuce beside “Partially Defatted Peanut Flour”
Romaine Lettuce sits among other busy catalog rows (821 products, mean score 93.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Partially Defatted Peanut Flour · Polyglycerol Esters Of Fatty Acids · Acacia. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Romaine Lettuce page
Start from Romaine Lettuce's 821 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Romaine Lettuce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Romaine Lettuce with a peer such as “Partially Defatted Peanut Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Romaine Lettuce — common follow-ups
Does Romaine Lettuce 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 Romaine Lettuce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Romaine Lettuce? ▼
Romaine Lettuce ranks in the top decile by product count (#750 of 247,206), appearing in 821 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Romaine Lettuce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Romaine Lettuce appears in 821 products (#750 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Romaine Lettuce). 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.