Sauteed Onion
Sauteed Onion appears in 60 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
Sauteed Onion appears in 60 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.
- 60
- catalogued products
- #4,389
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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: 14 of 60 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Aidells, Chicken Meatballs, Spicy Mango & Jalapeno; Balsamic Caramelized Onion Hommus; Beef Short Rib Ravioli to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Sauteed Onion itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
14 of 60 linked records have some flagged component
All 59 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
High-volume listing for Sauteed Onion - usage rank #4,389
- Usage rank
- #4,389
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 46 others that also appear in exactly 60 products, listed in more products than 98.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Mean relative depth 52% across 60 parsed labels, slot 20.6 on average. Sauteed Onion tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sauteed Onion
Across the 60 products on this site that list Sauteed Onion, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Sauteed Onion than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sauteed Onion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 8.3% | 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 Sauteed Onion
Products Containing Sauteed Onion
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 60 indexed products containing Sauteed Onion:
Sauteed Onion vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sauteed Onion: 60 products, mean screening score 97.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Acesulfame Potassium And Sucralose · And Active Cultures With L. Acidophilus And B. Bifidum · Active Dry Yeast. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Sauteed Onion page
Use the 60-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sauteed Onion before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Sauteed Onion with a peer such as “Acesulfame Potassium And Sucralose” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sauteed Onion — common follow-ups
Does Sauteed Onion 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 Sauteed Onion. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sauteed Onion? ▼
Sauteed Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,389 of 247,206), appearing in 60 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sauteed Onion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sauteed Onion appears in 60 products (#4,389 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sauteed Onion). 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.