Salted Peanuts

Salted Peanuts appears in 18 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

Salted Peanuts appears in 18 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.

18
catalogued products
#10,099
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
22%
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.

Salted Peanuts: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,099 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#10,099
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
22%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 18 products listing it (mean slot 7.7). Salted Peanuts usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Salted Peanuts spans 6 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with After school mix; Chocolino, Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch; Crazy Cajun when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

6 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 18 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.

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 Salted Peanuts

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 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Salted Peanuts
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

Top-decile company for Salted Peanuts: 18 listings averaging 91.7/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the Salted Peanuts page

Use the 18-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Salted Peanuts and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Salted Peanuts — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Salted Peanuts?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Salted Peanuts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,099 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Salted Peanuts?

Salted Peanuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Salted Peanuts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Salted Peanuts appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Salted Peanuts). 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.