Trail Mix

Trail Mix appears in 9 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

Trail Mix appears in 9 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.

9
catalogued products
#16,390
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
41%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 9 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apples yogurt dip; Peanut Butter Protein Pack; Sunnyside, Protein Power Pack, Apples, Egg And Trail Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Trail Mix itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

3 of 9 linked records have some flagged component

All 8 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.

Trail Mix sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#16,390 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#16,390
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
41%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9 products listing it (mean slot 11.3). Trail Mix usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 9 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 Trail Mix

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 9 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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Trail Mix Apples yogurt dipPeanut Butter Protein PackSunnyside, Protein Power Pack, Apples, Egg And Trail MixTanka trail, buffalo cranberry bites and coconut almond trail mixTanka, buffalo cranberry bites and blueberry almond trail mix, slow smoked originalTrail Mix, Red Peppers Hummus & Pita ChipsTurkey / Buffalo Cranberry Jerky And Mango Pepper Trail MixApples yogurt dip snack packGenoa salame, provolone cheese & hard boiled egg snacker with trail mix of nuts and sweets snack box
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.

High-volume peers for Trail Mix

Trail Mix sits among other busy catalog rows (9 products, mean score 83.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

What to do with this Trail Mix record

Start from Trail Mix's 9 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Trail Mix and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Trail Mix — common follow-ups

Does Trail Mix 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 Trail Mix. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Trail Mix?

Trail Mix ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Trail Mix so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Trail Mix appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Trail Mix). 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.