Sour Pickle
Sour Pickle appears in 6 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
Sour Pickle appears in 6 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.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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.
Sour Pickle: top-decile catalog footprint (#21,732 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 8%
- Mean relative depth 8% across 6 parsed labels, slot 2.3 on average. Sour Pickle tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sour Pickle spans 3 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with Lite Thousand Island Non-Dairy Dressing; Natural pickled pink jalapeño pickles; Sweet gourmet pickles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 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 Sour Pickle
Products Containing Sour Pickle
6 busy labels from the 6 indexed products that list Sour Pickle:
High-volume peers for Sour Pickle
High-volume peers for Sour Pickle: 6 products, mean screening score 97.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sour Pickle page
6 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sour Pickle are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sour Pickle to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sour Pickle — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sour Pickle? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sour Pickle, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sour Pickle? ▼
Sour Pickle ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sour Pickle so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sour Pickle appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sour Pickle). 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.