Sardines
Sardines appears in 312 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
Sardines appears in 312 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.
- 312
- catalogued products
- #1,448
- usage rank of 247,206
- 112
- named brands represented
- 2%
- 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.
Sardines: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,448 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,448
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 313 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 2%
- Mean relative depth 2% across 313 parsed labels, slot 1.4 on average. Sardines tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 1.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sardines spans 112 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with 555 sardines (r) 425g; Al Amir, Moroccan Sardines In Oil With Chili Peppers; Angelo parodi, sardines in olive oil with chili peppers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
112 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 199 of 300 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 Sardines
Across the 312 products on this site that list Sardines, 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 Sardines products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 1.6% | 5.7% |
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 Sardines
Products Containing Sardines
16 busy labels from the 312 indexed products that list Sardines:
High-volume peers for Sardines beside “Orange Pulp”
Top-decile company for Sardines: 312 listings averaging 99.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Orange Pulp; White Corn Flour; Caraway Seeds.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Sardines record
Start from Sardines's 312 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sardines and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Sardines with a peer such as “Orange Pulp” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Sardines
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sardines? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sardines, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,448 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sardines? ▼
Sardines ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,448 of 247,206), appearing in 312 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sardines so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sardines appears in 312 products (#1,448 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sardines). 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.