Soy Nuts

Soy Nuts appears in 67 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

Soy Nuts appears in 67 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.

67
catalogued products
#4,097
usage rank of 247,206
28
named brands represented
43%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 17 of 67 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, steel cut oat bread; Almond Crusted Flounder; American Importing Co, Energy Trail Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Soy Nuts itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

17 of 67 linked records have some flagged component

All 65 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.

High-volume listing for Soy Nuts - usage rank #4,097

Usage rank
#4,097
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Averaged label depth puts Soy Nuts in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 13.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Soy Nuts

Across the 67 products on this site that list Soy Nuts, 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. Sucralose shows up about 5.5x more often with Soy Nuts than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Soy Nuts products Share of all products
Sucralose 10 14.9% 2.7%
Caramel Coloring 7 10.4% 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 Soy Nuts

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Soy Nuts
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.

High-volume peers for Soy Nuts beside “Acesulfame”

Soy Nuts sits among other busy catalog rows (67 products, mean score 96.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Acesulfame”, “Added To Promote Color Retention”, “Brandy”. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Soy Nuts evidence

67 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Soy Nuts are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Soy Nuts to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Soy Nuts — common follow-ups

Does Soy Nuts carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Soy Nuts. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Nuts?

Soy Nuts ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Soy Nuts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Nuts appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy Nuts). 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.