Scallion
Scallion appears in 141 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
Scallion appears in 141 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.
- 141
- catalogued products
- #2,439
- usage rank of 247,206
- 70
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 30 of 141 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12Pc Shrimp Temp Kabuki Roll, Shrimp Temp Kabuki; All natural, vegetable cream cheese spread; Bacon ranch, chicken poppers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 60–100 score range to Scallion itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
30 of 141 linked records have some flagged component
All 135 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 60–100 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 Scallion - usage rank #2,439
- Usage rank
- #2,439
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 142 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Mean relative depth 55% across 142 parsed labels, slot 18.4 on average. Scallion tends to sit in the lower 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Scallion
Across the 141 products on this site that list Scallion, 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 1.9x more often with Scallion than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Scallion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 10.6% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 6.4% | 2.4% |
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 Scallion
Products Containing Scallion
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 141 indexed products containing Scallion:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Apo-carotenal”)
Scallion sits among other busy catalog rows (141 products, mean score 97.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Apo-carotenal · Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid · Crushed Red Peppers. 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.
Using the Scallion evidence
Start from Scallion's 141 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Scallion to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Scallion — common follow-ups
Does Scallion 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 Scallion. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Scallion? ▼
Scallion ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,439 of 247,206), appearing in 141 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Scallion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Scallion appears in 141 products (#2,439 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Scallion). 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.