Sunflower Seed
Sunflower Seed appears in 1,248 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 Seed appears in 1,248 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.
- 1,248
- catalogued products
- #575
- usage rank of 247,206
- 212
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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 Seed sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#575 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #575
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Mean relative depth 63% across 1,248 parsed labels, slot 12.0 on average. Sunflower Seed tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Seed spans 212 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1-step smoothie; 100% Whole Grain Bread; 100% whole grain bread, whole grain when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
212 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 625 of 1210 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 Seed
Across the 1,248 products on this site that list Sunflower Seed, 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. Yellow 6 shows up about 2.5x more often with Sunflower Seed than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sunflower Seed products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 106 | 8.5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 100 | 8% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 86 | 6.9% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 85 | 6.8% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 81 | 6.5% | 0.9% |
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 Seed
Products Containing Sunflower Seed
16 busy labels from the 1,248 indexed products that list Sunflower Seed:
High-volume peers for Sunflower Seed beside “Green Tea”
Sunflower Seed sits among other busy catalog rows (1,248 products, mean score 91.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Green Tea · Strawberry · Whole Grain Oat Flour. 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 Seed record
Use the 1,248-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sunflower Seed before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Sunflower Seed next to “Strawberry” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sunflower Seed — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Seed? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Seed, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#575 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Seed? ▼
Sunflower Seed ranks in the top decile by product count (#575 of 247,206), appearing in 1,248 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Seed so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Seed appears in 1,248 products (#575 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Seed). 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.