Sesame Seeds
Sesame Seeds appears in 4,337 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
Sesame Seeds appears in 4,337 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.
- 4,337
- catalogued products
- #238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,275
- 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.
Sesame Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#238 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,343 products listing it (mean slot 17.1). Sesame Seeds usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 14% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sesame Seeds spans 1275 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 10 Grain and Seed Bread; 100 Calorie Protein Snack Bar; 100% Food, Choco Smoothie Powder Base when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1275 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 3046 of 4136 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 Sesame Seeds
Across the 4,337 products on this site that list Sesame Seeds, 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 Sesame Seeds products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 330 | 7.6% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Iodate | 100 | 2.3% | 0.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 100 | 2.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 77 | 1.8% | 3.4% |
| Carrageenan | 55 | 1.3% | 4.5% |
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 Sesame Seeds
Products Containing Sesame Seeds
High-volume slice (16 of 4,337) for products naming Sesame Seeds:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Dipotassium Phosphate”)
Sesame Seeds sits among other busy catalog rows (4,337 products, mean score 97.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dipotassium Phosphate; Pecans; Datem. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sesame Seeds evidence
Use the 4,337-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sesame Seeds and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Sesame Seeds with a peer such as “Dipotassium Phosphate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sesame Seeds
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sesame Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sesame Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#238 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sesame Seeds? ▼
Sesame Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#238 of 247,206), appearing in 4,337 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sesame Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sesame Seeds appears in 4,337 products (#238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sesame Seeds). 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.