Thai Basil
Thai Basil appears in 67 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
Thai Basil appears in 67 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.
- 67
- catalogued products
- #4,097
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Thai Basil: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,097 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,097
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Thai Basil in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 22.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 10.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Thai Basil spans 24 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Apinya, Thai Chili Sauce; Asian Noodles, Lemongrass Ginger; Basil Chili Rice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 52 of 65 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 Thai Basil
Products Containing Thai Basil
16 busy labels from the 67 indexed products that list Thai Basil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Acesulfame”)
Thai Basil sits among other busy catalog rows (67 products, mean score 99.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acesulfame; Added To Promote Color Retention; Brandy. 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 Thai Basil evidence
Start from Thai Basil's 67 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Thai Basil to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Thai Basil next to “Added To Promote Color Retention” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Thai Basil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Thai Basil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,097 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Thai Basil? ▼
Thai Basil ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Thai Basil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Thai Basil appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Thai Basil). 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.