Spices & Herbs
Spices & Herbs appears in 32 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 & Herbs appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- 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.
Spices & Herbs: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,747 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,747
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Spices & Herbs in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 18.2). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spices & Herbs spans 16 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Assaisonnements Pour Epi De Mais Mexican Epice; Authentic Chipotle Salsa; Caribbean Traditions Jerk Seasoning 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.
16 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 31 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 Spices & Herbs
Products Containing Spices & Herbs
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 32 indexed products containing Spices & Herbs:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Spices & Herbs: 32 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Spices & Herbs record
Use the 32-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Spices & Herbs to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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 & Herbs — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Spices & Herbs? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Spices & Herbs, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,747 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spices & Herbs? ▼
Spices & Herbs ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spices & Herbs so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices & Herbs appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices & Herbs). 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.