Sunflower Kernels
Sunflower Kernels appears in 580 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
Sunflower Kernels appears in 580 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.
- 580
- catalogued products
- #955
- usage rank of 247,206
- 200
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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 Sunflower Kernels - usage rank #955
- Usage rank
- #955
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 580 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 580 products listing it (mean slot 9.3). Sunflower Kernels usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 9.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Kernels spans 200 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 365 everyday value, 8 grain bread; 365 everyday value, lightly salted tortilla chips, multigrain; 365 everyday value, multigrains & seed bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
200 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 309 of 560 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 Sunflower Kernels
Across the 580 products on this site that list Sunflower Kernels, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sunflower Kernels products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 33 | 5.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 32 | 5.5% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 26 | 4.5% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 26 | 4.5% | 0.9% |
| Red 40 | 22 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
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 Sunflower Kernels
Products Containing Sunflower Kernels
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 580 indexed products containing Sunflower Kernels:
High-volume peers for Sunflower Kernels beside “Casein”
Sunflower Kernels sits among other busy catalog rows (580 products, mean score 94.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Casein; Organic Sorghum Flour; Lactase Enzyme. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Sunflower Kernels record
580 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sunflower Kernels are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sunflower Kernels to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Sunflower Kernels with a peer such as “Casein” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sunflower Kernels — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Kernels? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Kernels, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#955 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Kernels? ▼
Sunflower Kernels ranks in the top decile by product count (#955 of 247,206), appearing in 580 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Kernels so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Kernels appears in 580 products (#955 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Kernels). 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.