Seasonings

Seasonings appears in 370 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

Seasonings appears in 370 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.

370
catalogued products
#1,290
usage rank of 293,342
165
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.

Where Seasonings sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#1,290
of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 370 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Of the way down the list, averaged across the 370 products listing it (mean slot 16.2). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Seasonings usually falls in the upper half of the list.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How common is Seasonings vs other flagged additives?

Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Seasonings highlighted.

Caramel Coloring22612Red 4021595Yellow 518987Carrageenan17853Blue 116643Yellow 613560Sucralose10490Seasonings370
Indexed products containing each flagged additive. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists × FDA SAFFA × CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 152 of 370 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 555, Sardines In Tomato Sauce, Hot; Adobo tuna in soy sauce and vinegar; Afritada tuna in tomato sauce with vegetables to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Seasonings itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

All 367 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Seasonings safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Seasonings, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Seasonings?

Seasonings is found in 370 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Seasonings do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Seasonings. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.