Seaweed Powder

Seaweed Powder appears in 38 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

Seaweed Powder appears in 38 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.

38
catalogued products
#6,007
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
69%
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 Seaweed Powder - usage rank #6,007

Usage rank
#6,007
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 118 others that also appear in exactly 38 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Averaged label depth puts Seaweed Powder in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 16.4). 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 13.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Seaweed Powder spans 20 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with bleu Marine boy; Bowl flavored udon noodles; Breaded fish fillets when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

20 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 37 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.

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 Seaweed Powder

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Seaweed Powder
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Seaweed Powder vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Seaweed Powder: 38 listings averaging 96.8/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Seaweed Powder evidence

Use the 38-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Seaweed Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Seaweed Powder

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Seaweed Powder?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Seaweed Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,007 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Seaweed Powder?

Seaweed Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,007 of 247,206), appearing in 38 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Seaweed Powder so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Seaweed Powder appears in 38 products (#6,007 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Seaweed Powder). 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.