Snap Peas

Snap Peas appears in 70 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

Snap Peas appears in 70 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.

70
catalogued products
#3,970
usage rank of 247,206
27
named brands represented
47%
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 Snap Peas - usage rank #3,970

Usage rank
#3,970
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 40 others that also appear in exactly 70 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
47%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 70 products listing it (mean slot 14.4). Snap Peas usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Snap Peas spans 27 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 20oz Vegetable Tray SSK; Almonds, Veggies & Hummus; Asian blend couscous when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

27 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 46 of 70 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 Snap Peas

Across the 70 products on this site that list Snap Peas, 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 1.8x more often with Snap Peas than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Snap Peas products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 7 10% 5.7%

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 Snap Peas

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Snap Peas
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavour”)

Top-decile company for Snap Peas: 70 listings averaging 98.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural And Artificial Flavour; Bakers Yeast; Base.

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 Snap Peas evidence

Use the 70-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Snap Peas to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Place Snap Peas next to “Bakers Yeast” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Snap Peas

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Snap Peas?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Snap Peas, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,970 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Snap Peas?

Snap Peas ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,970 of 247,206), appearing in 70 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 Snap Peas so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Snap Peas appears in 70 products (#3,970 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Snap Peas). 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.