Seasonings
Seasonings appears in 383 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
Seasonings appears in 383 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.
- 383
- catalogued products
- #1,241
- usage rank of 247,206
- 160
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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: 157 of 383 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 555, Sardines In Tomato Sauce, Hot; Adobo tuna in soy sauce and vinegar; Afritada tuna in tomato sauce with vegetables to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Seasonings itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
157 of 383 linked records have some flagged component
All 380 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Seasonings sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,241 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,241
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 383 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 383 parsed labels, slot 15.9 on average. Seasonings tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Seasonings
Across the 383 products on this site that list Seasonings, 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 7.3x more often with Seasonings than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Seasonings products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 67 | 17.5% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 14.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 35 | 9.1% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 31 | 8.1% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 23 | 6% | 1.1% |
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 Seasonings
Products Containing Seasonings
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 383 indexed products containing Seasonings:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cacao Butter”)
Top-decile company for Seasonings: 383 listings averaging 92.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cacao Butter; Cayenne Pepper Sauce; Minced Onion.
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.
What to do with this Seasonings record
Start from Seasonings's 383 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Seasonings before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Seasonings with a peer such as “Cacao Butter” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Seasonings
Does Seasonings 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 Seasonings. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Seasonings? ▼
Seasonings ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,241 of 247,206), appearing in 383 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Seasonings so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Seasonings appears in 383 products (#1,241 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Seasonings). 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.