Sunflower Oils

Sunflower Oils appears in 56 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 Oils appears in 56 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.

56
catalogued products
#4,615
usage rank of 247,206
19
named brands represented
50%
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.

Sunflower Oils: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,615 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,615
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
50%
Averaged label depth puts Sunflower Oils in the lower half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 12.2). 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 5.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Oils spans 19 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Aegean's choice, dried montmorency tart cherries; Aptamil Care; BABY CHEDDAR BAKED SNACK CRACKERS when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

19 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 48 of 56 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 Sunflower Oils

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sunflower Oils
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Almond Base”)

Top-decile company for Sunflower Oils: 56 listings averaging 97.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Base · Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture · Beta-carotene For Color.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Sunflower Oils record

56 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sunflower Oils are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Sunflower Oils and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Sunflower Oils

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Oils?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Oils, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,615 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Oils?

Sunflower Oils ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Sunflower Oils so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Oils appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Oils). 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.