Sunflower Oil
Sunflower Oil appears in 22,842 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 Oil appears in 22,842 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.
- 22,842
- catalogued products
- #46
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,769
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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 Oil - usage rank #46
- Usage rank
- #46
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Sunflower Oil in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 11.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Oil spans 3769 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 0000 LIME PICKLE Tangy and fiery, with zesty lime; 1 Cal Sunflower Oil Cooking Spray; 1/2 LA Brea Three Cheese Loaf when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3769 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 17311 of 22077 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 Oil
Across the 22,842 products on this site that list Sunflower Oil, 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 Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,202 | 5.3% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,042 | 4.6% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 960 | 4.2% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 941 | 4.1% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 662 | 2.9% | 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 Sunflower Oil
Products Containing Sunflower Oil
16 busy labels from the 22,842 indexed products that list Sunflower Oil:
Sunflower Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sunflower Oil: 22,842 products, mean screening score 93.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Onion Powder · Baking Soda · Caramel Coloring. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sunflower Oil page
Start from Sunflower Oil's 22,842 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sunflower Oil and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Sunflower Oil next to “Baking Soda” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#46 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Oil? ▼
Sunflower Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#46 of 247,206), appearing in 22,842 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Oil appears in 22,842 products (#46 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Oil). 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.