Shallot
Shallot appears in 458 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
Shallot appears in 458 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.
- 458
- catalogued products
- #1,092
- usage rank of 247,206
- 164
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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 Shallot - usage rank #1,092
- Usage rank
- #1,092
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 459 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 459 parsed labels, slot 16.2 on average. Shallot tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 19% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Shallot spans 164 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of china, sweet and sour rice, sweet and sour, sweet and sour; A taste of china, szechuan noodles; A taste of india, spiced rice with raisins, quick meal when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
164 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 336 of 433 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 Shallot
Across the 458 products on this site that list Shallot, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.2x more often with Shallot than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Shallot products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 58 | 12.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 21 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| TBHQ | 5 | 1.1% | 0.5% |
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 Shallot
Products Containing Shallot
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 458 indexed products containing Shallot:
Shallot vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Shallot: 458 products, mean screening score 98.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Lard; Wheat Protein; Diglycerides. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Shallot evidence
458 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Shallot are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Shallot before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Shallot with a peer such as “Lard” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Shallot — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Shallot? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Shallot, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,092 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Shallot? ▼
Shallot ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,092 of 247,206), appearing in 458 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Shallot so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shallot appears in 458 products (#1,092 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shallot). 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.