Spicy Brown Mustard
Spicy Brown Mustard appears in 18 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
Spicy Brown Mustard appears in 18 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.
- 18
- catalogued products
- #10,099
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 32%
- 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 Spicy Brown Mustard - usage rank #10,099
- Usage rank
- #10,099
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Mean relative depth 32% across 18 parsed labels, slot 9.6 on average. Spicy Brown Mustard tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spicy Brown Mustard spans 10 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 Barbeque Sauce; Barbeque Sauce, Spicy; Caesar dressing w/ avocado oil when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
10 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 18 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 Spicy Brown Mustard
Products Containing Spicy Brown Mustard
16 busy labels from the 18 indexed products that list Spicy Brown Mustard:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Spicy Brown Mustard: 18 listings averaging 96.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Spicy Brown Mustard evidence
Start from Spicy Brown Mustard's 18 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Spicy Brown Mustard before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Spicy Brown Mustard? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Spicy Brown Mustard, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,099 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spicy Brown Mustard? ▼
Spicy Brown Mustard ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spicy Brown Mustard so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spicy Brown Mustard appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spicy Brown Mustard). 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.