Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower Seeds appears in 3,074 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 Seeds appears in 3,074 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.
- 3,074
- catalogued products
- #301
- usage rank of 247,206
- 938
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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 Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#301 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #301
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,075 products listing it (mean slot 9.3). Sunflower Seeds 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.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Seeds spans 938 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 Grain and Seed Bread; 100% Natural Granola With Blueberries, Apples, Almonds, Pecans & 4 Seeds; 100% Sprouted Whole Wheat when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
938 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1561 of 2875 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 Seeds
Across the 3,074 products on this site that list Sunflower Seeds, 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 Seeds products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 1.8% | 5.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 38 | 1.2% | 0.5% |
| Sucralose | 18 | 0.6% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 0.6% | 4.5% |
| Potassium Iodate | 17 | 0.6% | 0.2% |
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 Seeds
Products Containing Sunflower Seeds
High-volume slice (16 of 3,074) for products naming Sunflower Seeds:
High-volume peers for Sunflower Seeds beside “Pea Protein”
High-volume peers for Sunflower Seeds: 3,074 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Pea Protein · Paprika Extract · Extractives Of Paprika. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Sunflower Seeds record
Start from Sunflower Seeds's 3,074 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sunflower Seeds and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Sunflower Seeds with a peer such as “Pea Protein” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sunflower Seeds — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#301 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Seeds? ▼
Sunflower Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#301 of 247,206), appearing in 3,074 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Seeds appears in 3,074 products (#301 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Seeds). 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.