Sel
Sel appears in 418 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
Sel appears in 418 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.
- 418
- catalogued products
- #1,161
- usage rank of 247,206
- 295
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
Sel: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,161 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,161
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 418 parsed labels, slot 13.2 on average. Sel tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sel spans 295 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Crema Di Arachidi Americana Senza Zucchero Kosher ( Peanut Butter ); 4 mini à dorer; AL FASSIA Olives vertes au citron when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
295 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 299 of 376 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 Sel
Across the 418 products on this site that list Sel, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sel products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 6 | 1.4% | 2.7% |
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 Sel
Products Containing Sel
16 busy labels from the 418 indexed products that list Sel:
Sel vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Sel sits among other busy catalog rows (418 products, mean score 98.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Peach; B1; Natural Beef Flavor. 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.
Next steps from the Sel page
Start from Sel's 418 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sel before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Sel next to “B1” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Sel
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sel? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,161 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sel? ▼
Sel ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,161 of 247,206), appearing in 418 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sel appears in 418 products (#1,161 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sel). 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.