Whitefish
Whitefish appears in 41 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
Whitefish appears in 41 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.
- 41
- catalogued products
- #5,697
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 20 of 41 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Fresh Smoked Whitefish Salad; Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Smoked Fish Salad; All Natural Gefilte Fish to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Whitefish itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
20 of 41 linked records have some flagged component
All 41 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Whitefish sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,697 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,697
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 99 others that also appear in exactly 41 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 41 products listing it (mean slot 4.5). Whitefish usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Whitefish
Across the 41 products on this site that list Whitefish, 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 10.3x more often with Whitefish than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whitefish products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 19 | 46.3% | 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 Whitefish
Products Containing Whitefish
16 busy labels from the 41 indexed products that list Whitefish:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Whitefish sits among other busy catalog rows (41 products, mean score 95.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Whitefish evidence
Use the 41-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 Whitefish to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Questions readers ask about Whitefish
Does Whitefish carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Whitefish. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whitefish? ▼
Whitefish ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,697 of 247,206), appearing in 41 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whitefish so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whitefish appears in 41 products (#5,697 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whitefish). 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.