Sweet Onions
Sweet Onions appears in 49 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
Sweet Onions appears in 49 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.
- 49
- catalogued products
- #5,044
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- 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.
Sweet Onions sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,044 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,044
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 64 others that also appear in exactly 49 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Averaged label depth puts Sweet Onions in the upper half of the list (40% of list length, mean slot 10.0). 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 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sweet Onions spans 18 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Bacon! Dressing; Balsamic Red Onion Chutney; Bolognese sauce, bolognese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 26 of 45 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 Sweet Onions
Across the 49 products on this site that list Sweet Onions, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Sweet Onions than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sweet Onions products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 10.2% | 5.7% |
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 Sweet Onions
Products Containing Sweet Onions
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 49 indexed products containing Sweet Onions:
Sweet Onions vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sweet Onions: 49 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Sweet Onions evidence
49 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sweet Onions are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Sweet Onions before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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 Sweet Onions? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sweet Onions, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,044 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sweet Onions? ▼
Sweet Onions ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,044 of 247,206), appearing in 49 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sweet Onions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweet Onions appears in 49 products (#5,044 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweet Onions). 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.