Water Mustard Seed

Water Mustard Seed appears in 13 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

Water Mustard Seed appears in 13 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.

13
catalogued products
#12,640
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
48%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

53.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Water Mustard Seed as the trigger. Open records such as Bbq Sauce; Bbq Sauce; Blue Cheese Mustard and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 48% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

53.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 10 of 13 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Water Mustard Seed: top-decile catalog footprint (#12,640 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#12,640
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
48%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 13 products listing it (mean slot 17.7). Water Mustard Seed 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 13 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 Water Mustard Seed

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 13 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 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Water Mustard Seed
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Water Mustard Seed sits among other busy catalog rows (13 products, mean score 95.4/100). 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 Water Mustard Seed record

13 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Water Mustard Seed are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Water Mustard Seed before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Water Mustard Seed

How should I read safety signals when Water Mustard Seed sits in heavily flagged products?

53.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Water Mustard Seed is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Water Mustard Seed?

Water Mustard Seed ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Water Mustard Seed so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Water Mustard Seed appears in 13 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Water Mustard Seed). 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.