Turmeric
Turmeric appears in 11,419 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
Turmeric appears in 11,419 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.
- 11,419
- catalogued products
- #100
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,717
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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: 2980 of 11419 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 04 turmeric tang; 100% Cold Pressed Juice; 100% Durum Wheat Semolina Pasta to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Turmeric 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.
2980 of 11,419 linked records have some flagged component
All 11153 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Turmeric: top-decile catalog footprint (#100 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #100
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11,434 products listing it (mean slot 19.1). Turmeric 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Turmeric
Across the 11,419 products on this site that list Turmeric, 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 1.9x more often with Turmeric than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Turmeric products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,230 | 10.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 608 | 5.3% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 469 | 4.1% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 332 | 2.9% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 330 | 2.9% | 4.2% |
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 Turmeric
Products Containing Turmeric
16 busy labels from the 11,419 indexed products that list Turmeric:
Turmeric vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Turmeric: 11,419 products, mean screening score 94.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Cellulose Gum”, “Vitamin B2”, “Filtered Water”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Turmeric record
Start from Turmeric's 11,419 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Turmeric before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Turmeric next to “Vitamin B2” (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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Turmeric
Does Turmeric 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 Turmeric. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Turmeric? ▼
Turmeric ranks in the top decile by product count (#100 of 247,206), appearing in 11,419 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Turmeric so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turmeric appears in 11,419 products (#100 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turmeric). 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.