Walnut Pieces

Walnut Pieces appears in 18 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 Pieces appears in 18 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.

18
catalogued products
#10,099
usage rank of 247,206
11
named brands represented
49%
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 Walnut Pieces - usage rank #10,099

Usage rank
#10,099
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Mean relative depth 49% across 18 parsed labels, slot 9.8 on average. Walnut Pieces tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Walnut Pieces spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Apple Nut Bread; Banana Nut Muffin and Quick Bread Mix; Betty Crocker Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

11 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 17 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.

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 Pieces

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 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Walnut Pieces
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.

Walnut Pieces vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Walnut Pieces: 18 listings averaging 97.5/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Walnut Pieces record

Start from Walnut Pieces's 18 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Walnut Pieces and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Walnut Pieces — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Walnut Pieces?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Walnut Pieces, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,099 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Walnut Pieces?

Walnut Pieces ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Walnut Pieces so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Walnut Pieces appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Walnut Pieces). 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.