Toasted Onion
Toasted Onion appears in 103 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
Toasted Onion appears in 103 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.
- 103
- catalogued products
- #3,066
- usage rank of 247,206
- 50
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
Toasted Onion: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,066 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,066
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 103 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Toasted Onion in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 11.7). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Toasted Onion spans 50 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bagels; Bagels; Bagels Everything when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
50 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 80 of 101 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 Toasted Onion
Across the 103 products on this site that list Toasted Onion, 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 2.1x more often with Toasted Onion than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Toasted Onion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 11.7% | 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 Toasted Onion
Products Containing Toasted Onion
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 103 indexed products containing Toasted Onion:
Toasted Onion vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Toasted Onion sits among other busy catalog rows (103 products, mean score 98.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Acai Puree”, “Aloe Vera Juice”, “Bamboo Shoots”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Toasted Onion page
103 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Toasted Onion are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Toasted Onion to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Toasted Onion? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Toasted Onion, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,066 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Toasted Onion? ▼
Toasted Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,066 of 247,206), appearing in 103 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 Toasted Onion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Toasted Onion appears in 103 products (#3,066 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Toasted Onion). 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.