Toasted Sesame Seed

Toasted Sesame Seed appears in 23 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 Sesame Seed appears in 23 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.

23
catalogued products
#8,512
usage rank of 247,206
16
named brands represented
64%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 23 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All Purpose Salt-Free Seasoning; Asian Rub; Bull in a Broccoli Shop to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Toasted Sesame Seed itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

5 of 23 linked records have some flagged component

All 23 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

High-volume listing for Toasted Sesame Seed - usage rank #8,512

Usage rank
#8,512
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
64%
Mean relative depth 64% across 23 parsed labels, slot 17.1 on average. Toasted Sesame Seed tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 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 Sesame Seed

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Toasted Sesame Seed
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Toasted Sesame Seed vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Toasted Sesame Seed: 23 products, mean screening score 98.9/100. 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.

What to do with this Toasted Sesame Seed record

Start from Toasted Sesame Seed's 23 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Toasted Sesame Seed — common follow-ups

Does Toasted Sesame Seed carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Toasted Sesame Seed. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Toasted Sesame Seed?

Toasted Sesame Seed ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Toasted Sesame Seed so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Toasted Sesame Seed appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Toasted Sesame Seed). 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.