Safflower Oil
Safflower Oil appears in 2,898 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 Oil appears in 2,898 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.
- 2,898
- catalogued products
- #314
- usage rank of 247,206
- 634
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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 Safflower Oil - usage rank #314
- Usage rank
- #314
- 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
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,898 products listing it (mean slot 10.8). Safflower Oil usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 12.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Safflower Oil spans 634 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1/4 Pound Beef Franks; 100 % Natural; 100% Natural Cookies, Chocolate Chunk when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
634 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2128 of 2797 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 Oil
Across the 2,898 products on this site that list Safflower Oil, 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 Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 148 | 5.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 80 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 59 | 2% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 51 | 1.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 44 | 1.5% | 3.4% |
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 Safflower Oil
Products Containing Safflower Oil
16 busy labels from the 2,898 indexed products that list Safflower Oil:
Safflower Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Safflower Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (2,898 products, mean score 96.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Mustard; Acetic Acid; Lecithin. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Safflower Oil page
2,898 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Safflower Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Safflower Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Safflower Oil next to “Acetic Acid” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Safflower Oil — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Safflower Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Safflower Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#314 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Safflower Oil? ▼
Safflower Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#314 of 247,206), appearing in 2,898 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Safflower Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Safflower Oil appears in 2,898 products (#314 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Safflower Oil). 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.