Wax Beans
Wax Beans appears in 75 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
Wax Beans appears in 75 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.
- 75
- catalogued products
- #3,802
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 17%
- 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.
Wax Beans sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,802 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,802
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 75 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 17%
- Averaged label depth puts Wax Beans near the top of the captured list (17% of list length, mean slot 3.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Wax Beans spans 36 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 Bean Salad; 3 bean salad cups; 3 bean salad cups when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 53 of 75 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 Wax Beans
Products Containing Wax Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 75) for products naming Wax Beans:
Wax Beans vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Wax Beans sits among other busy catalog rows (75 products, mean score 99.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Alfredo Sauce · Amaranth Seeds · Ascorbic Acid Added As Dough Conditioner. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Wax Beans evidence
Start from Wax Beans's 75 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Wax Beans before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Questions readers ask about Wax Beans
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Wax Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Wax Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,802 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wax Beans? ▼
Wax Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,802 of 247,206), appearing in 75 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Wax Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wax Beans appears in 75 products (#3,802 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wax Beans). 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.