Spearmint
Spearmint appears in 182 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
Spearmint appears in 182 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.
- 182
- catalogued products
- #2,067
- usage rank of 247,206
- 79
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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 Spearmint - usage rank #2,067
- Usage rank
- #2,067
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 182 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 182 products listing it (mean slot 11.1). Spearmint usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 5.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spearmint spans 79 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% organic herbal tea; 100% organic herbal tea; Ahold, simply enjoy, gourmet dip with pepper topping, sweet potato harissa when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
79 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 88 of 165 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 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 Spearmint
Products Containing Spearmint
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 182 indexed products containing Spearmint:
High-volume peers for Spearmint beside “Dutch Cocoa”
Top-decile company for Spearmint: 182 listings averaging 98.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Dutch Cocoa · Horseradish Powder · Methylcobalamin.
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.
What to do with this Spearmint record
Start from Spearmint's 182 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Spearmint to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Spearmint with a peer such as “Dutch Cocoa” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Spearmint? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Spearmint, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,067 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spearmint? ▼
Spearmint ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,067 of 247,206), appearing in 182 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 Spearmint so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spearmint appears in 182 products (#2,067 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spearmint). 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.