Scallions
Scallions appears in 367 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
Scallions appears in 367 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.
- 367
- catalogued products
- #1,281
- usage rank of 247,206
- 109
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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 Scallions - usage rank #1,281
- Usage rank
- #1,281
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 367 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Scallions in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 21.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Scallions spans 109 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with 12pc shrimp tempura kabuki roll wr; 4pc spicy shrimp inari; Archer farms, cream cheese spread, sriracha & scallion when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
109 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 273 of 345 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 Scallions
Across the 367 products on this site that list Scallions, 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 1.7x more often with Scallions than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Scallions products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 36 | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 2.2% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 1.6% | 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 Scallions
Products Containing Scallions
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 367 indexed products containing Scallions:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Edamame”)
Top-decile company for Scallions: 367 listings averaging 99/100. Nearest count peers include “Edamame”, “Green Pepper”, “Lactase”.
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.
Using the Scallions evidence
Use the 367-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Scallions before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Scallions with a peer such as “Edamame” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Scallions? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Scallions, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,281 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Scallions? ▼
Scallions ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,281 of 247,206), appearing in 367 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Scallions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Scallions appears in 367 products (#1,281 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Scallions). 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.