Safflower
Safflower appears in 1,869 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
Safflower appears in 1,869 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.
- 1,869
- catalogued products
- #426
- usage rank of 247,206
- 419
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
Safflower: top-decile catalog footprint (#426 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #426
- 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
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 1,869 parsed labels, slot 8.7 on average. Safflower tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Safflower spans 419 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% White Corn Tortilla Chips; 100% White Corn Tortilla Chips; 365 everyday value, croutons, cheese & garlic when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
419 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1275 of 1798 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 Safflower
Across the 1,869 products on this site that list Safflower, 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 Safflower products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 82 | 4.4% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 74 | 4% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 70 | 3.7% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 63 | 3.4% | 3.4% |
| Carrageenan | 60 | 3.2% | 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 Safflower
Products Containing Safflower
High-volume slice (16 of 1,869) for products naming Safflower:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cultured Wheat Flour”)
Safflower sits among other busy catalog rows (1,869 products, mean score 94.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Cultured Wheat Flour · L. Bulgaricus · Cured With Water. 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.
What to do with this Safflower record
1,869 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Safflower are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Safflower to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Safflower with a peer such as “Cultured Wheat Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Safflower? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Safflower, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#426 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Safflower? ▼
Safflower ranks in the top decile by product count (#426 of 247,206), appearing in 1,869 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Safflower so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Safflower appears in 1,869 products (#426 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Safflower). 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.