Walnut
Walnut appears in 195 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
Walnut appears in 195 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.
- 195
- catalogued products
- #1,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 86
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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.
Walnut: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,971 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 195 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Mean relative depth 77% across 195 parsed labels, slot 23.0 on average. Walnut tends to sit near the end of the captured 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Walnut spans 86 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 6 CT WHITE & CHOCOLATE CUP WITH WHIPPED ICING; A Dozen Sweet Bites; Absolute Yummy Hot Chili Oil when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
86 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 142 of 180 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 Walnut
Across the 195 products on this site that list Walnut, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Walnut products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 8.7% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 11 | 5.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 5.6% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 9 | 4.6% | 3.4% |
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 Walnut
Products Containing Walnut
High-volume slice (16 of 195) for products naming Walnut:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Asadero Cheese”)
High-volume peers for Walnut: 195 products, mean screening score 93.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Asadero Cheese”, “Bbq Sauce”, “Dough Conditioner Blend”. 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.
Using the Walnut evidence
195 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Walnut are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Walnut and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Walnut with a peer such as “Asadero Cheese” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Walnut
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Walnut? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Walnut, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,971 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Walnut? ▼
Walnut ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,971 of 247,206), appearing in 195 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Walnut so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Walnut appears in 195 products (#1,971 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Walnut). 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.