Sunflower Seed Oil
Sunflower Seed Oil appears in 548 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 Oil appears in 548 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.
- 548
- catalogued products
- #996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 154
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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 Seed Oil - usage rank #996
- Usage rank
- #996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 550 parsed labels, slot 9.0 on average. Sunflower Seed Oil tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Seed Oil spans 154 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 3 cheeses and tomato sauce seasoned with extra virgin olive oil pizza, three cheese; 365 everyday value, baked naan chips, green chili chutney; 365 everyday value, cracked wheat crackers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
154 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 258 of 510 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 Oil
Across the 548 products on this site that list Sunflower Seed 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 Seed Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 15 | 2.7% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 14 | 2.6% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 2.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 13 | 2.4% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 11 | 2% | 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 Oil
Products Containing Sunflower Seed Oil
High-volume slice (16 of 548) for products naming Sunflower Seed Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Nonfat Dry Milk Solids”)
Sunflower Seed Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (548 products, mean score 96.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Nonfat Dry Milk Solids; Vitamin And Mineral Blend; Trace Of Lime. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Sunflower Seed Oil evidence
548 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sunflower Seed Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Sunflower Seed Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Sunflower Seed Oil next to “Vitamin And Mineral Blend” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open 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 Seed Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Seed Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#996 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Seed Oil? ▼
Sunflower Seed Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#996 of 247,206), appearing in 548 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Seed Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Seed Oil appears in 548 products (#996 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Seed 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.