Scallops
Scallops appears in 110 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
Scallops appears in 110 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.
- 110
- catalogued products
- #2,934
- usage rank of 247,206
- 51
- named brands represented
- 18%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 25 of 110 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Arctic Shores Seafood Company, Sea Scallops; Arctic Shores, Bay Scallops; Bacon Wrapped Scallops to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 60–100 score range to Scallops itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
25 of 110 linked records have some flagged component
All 103 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.
Scallops: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,934 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,934
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 110 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 18%
- Averaged label depth puts Scallops near the top of the captured list (18% of list length, mean slot 4.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Scallops
Across the 110 products on this site that list Scallops, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5.3x more often with Scallops than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Scallops products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 14 | 12.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 4.5% | 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 Scallops
Products Containing Scallops
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 110 indexed products containing Scallops:
Scallops vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Scallops: 110 listings averaging 96.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Apricot Puree; Cream Cheese Powder; Cultured Low Fat Milk.
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.
Next steps from the Scallops page
Use the 110-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Scallops to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Scallops with a peer such as “Apricot Puree” 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Scallops 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 Scallops. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Scallops? ▼
Scallops ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,934 of 247,206), appearing in 110 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Scallops so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Scallops appears in 110 products (#2,934 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Scallops). 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.