Stevia Leaf Extract
Stevia Leaf Extract appears in 3,057 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
Stevia Leaf Extract appears in 3,057 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.
- 3,057
- catalogued products
- #303
- usage rank of 247,206
- 627
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Stevia Leaf Extract - usage rank #303
- Usage rank
- #303
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Averaged label depth puts Stevia Leaf Extract in the lower half of the list (73% of list length, mean slot 11.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Stevia Leaf Extract spans 627 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 0 calorie sweetener; 100% Grass Fed Whey Protein; 100% juice blend from concentrate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
627 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 3055 of 3055 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Stevia Leaf Extract
Across the 3,057 products on this site that list Stevia Leaf Extract, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 24.6x more often with Stevia Leaf Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Stevia Leaf Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 377 | 12.3% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 158 | 5.2% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 109 | 3.6% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 101 | 3.3% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 44 | 1.4% | 1.8% |
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 Stevia Leaf Extract
Products Containing Stevia Leaf Extract
High-volume slice (16 of 3,057) for products naming Stevia Leaf Extract:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vital Wheat Gluten”)
High-volume peers for Stevia Leaf Extract: 3,057 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Vital Wheat Gluten”, “Paprika Extract”, “Sunflower Seeds”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Stevia Leaf Extract evidence
Use the 3,057-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Stevia Leaf Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Stevia Leaf Extract next to “Paprika Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Stevia Leaf Extract
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Stevia Leaf Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Stevia Leaf Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#303 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Stevia Leaf Extract? ▼
Stevia Leaf Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#303 of 247,206), appearing in 3,057 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Stevia Leaf Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Stevia Leaf Extract appears in 3,057 products (#303 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Stevia Leaf Extract). 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.