Toasted Sesame Seeds

Toasted Sesame Seeds appears in 178 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 Seeds appears in 178 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.

178
catalogued products
#2,094
usage rank of 247,206
78
named brands represented
69%
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.

High-volume listing for Toasted Sesame Seeds - usage rank #2,094

Usage rank
#2,094
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 178 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 178 products listing it (mean slot 17.7). Toasted Sesame Seeds usually falls in the lower 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 14% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Toasted Sesame Seeds spans 78 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Aloha Teriyaki Beef Jerky; Amy's, harvest casserole bowls; Apricot + sesame seeds fruit + seed bar, apricot + sesame seeds 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.

78 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 135 of 175 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 Sesame Seeds

Across the 178 products on this site that list Toasted Sesame 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.5x more often with Toasted Sesame Seeds than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Toasted Sesame Seeds products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 25 14% 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 Sesame Seeds

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 Seeds
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 Seeds vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Toasted Sesame Seeds sits among other busy catalog rows (178 products, mean score 99.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bleached Wheat Flour Enriched · Blue #2 · Concord Grape Juice. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Toasted Sesame Seeds record

Start from Toasted Sesame Seeds's 178 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Toasted Sesame Seeds before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Toasted Sesame Seeds next to “Blue #2” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

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

Toasted Sesame Seeds — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Toasted Sesame Seeds?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Toasted Sesame Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,094 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

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

Toasted Sesame Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,094 of 247,206), appearing in 178 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Toasted Sesame Seeds so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Toasted Sesame Seeds appears in 178 products (#2,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Toasted Sesame 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.