Spices
Spices appears in 45,370 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
Spices appears in 45,370 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.
- 45,370
- catalogued products
- #14
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6,993
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 13356 of 45370 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/2 Pie - Pumpkin to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Spices itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
13356 of 45,370 linked records have some flagged component
All 44279 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Spices - usage rank #14
- Usage rank
- #14
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Spices in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 15.7). 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 Spices
Across the 45,370 products on this site that list Spices, 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 2.4x more often with Spices than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Spices products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6,216 | 13.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 3,670 | 8.1% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 1,892 | 4.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 1,826 | 4% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 1,741 | 3.8% | 4.5% |
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 Spices
Products Containing Spices
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 45,370 indexed products containing Spices:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Corn Starch”)
Top-decile company for Spices: 45,370 listings averaging 94.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Corn Starch; Natural Flavors; Sea salt.
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.
Next steps from the Spices page
Start from Spices's 45,370 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Spices and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Spices with a peer such as “Corn Starch” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Spices — common follow-ups
Does Spices 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 Spices. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spices? ▼
Spices ranks in the top decile by product count (#14 of 247,206), appearing in 45,370 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spices so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices appears in 45,370 products (#14 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices). 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.