White Onions
White Onions appears in 42 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 Onions appears in 42 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.
- 42
- catalogued products
- #5,603
- usage rank of 247,206
- 21
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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 Onions: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,603 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,603
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 93 others that also appear in exactly 42 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 42 parsed labels, slot 12.0 on average. White Onions tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Onions spans 21 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Authentic Mexican Salsa; Authentic Mexican Salsa; Bpllywood Burgers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
21 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 30 of 38 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 Onions
Across the 42 products on this site that list White Onions, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.6x more often with White Onions than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of White Onions products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 5 | 11.9% | 4.5% |
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 Onions
Products Containing White Onions
16 busy labels from the 42 indexed products that list White Onions:
White Onions vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for White Onions: 42 listings averaging 99.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the White Onions page
Use the 42-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list White Onions to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
White Onions — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on White Onions? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Onions, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,603 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Onions? ▼
White Onions ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,603 of 247,206), appearing in 42 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Onions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Onions appears in 42 products (#5,603 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Onions). 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.