White Onion
White Onion appears in 133 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
White Onion appears in 133 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.
- 133
- catalogued products
- #2,564
- usage rank of 247,206
- 49
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
White Onion: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,564 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,564
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 133 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 133 products listing it (mean slot 11.3). White Onion 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Onion spans 49 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Artisanal Salsas; Authentic style fresh guacmole, baja; Bacon and Carmelized onion sausage when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
49 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 67 of 125 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 White Onion
Across the 133 products on this site that list White Onion, 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 White Onion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 3.8% | 5.7% |
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 White Onion
Products Containing White Onion
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 133 indexed products containing White Onion:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Arabica Coffee”)
High-volume peers for White Onion: 133 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Arabica Coffee · Aged Cheddar Cheese · Butter Fat. 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 White Onion evidence
Use the 133-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for White Onion and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare White Onion with a peer such as “100% Arabica Coffee” on 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about White Onion
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on White Onion? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Onion, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,564 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Onion? ▼
White Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,564 of 247,206), appearing in 133 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Onion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Onion appears in 133 products (#2,564 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Onion). 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.