Whole Caraway Seeds
Whole Caraway Seeds appears in 20 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
Whole Caraway Seeds appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Whole Caraway Seeds - usage rank #9,371
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 20 parsed labels, slot 13.4 on average. Whole Caraway Seeds tends to sit in the lower 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Caraway Seeds spans 12 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Aunt millie's, best grains, dakota rye; Brooklyn rye bread; Caraway crackers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 14 of 19 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 Whole Caraway Seeds
Products Containing Whole Caraway Seeds
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 20 indexed products containing Whole Caraway Seeds:
High-volume peers for Whole Caraway Seeds
Top-decile company for Whole Caraway Seeds: 20 listings averaging 98.8/100.
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 Whole Caraway Seeds page
Use the 20-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 Whole Caraway Seeds 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 Whole Caraway Seeds
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Caraway Seeds? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Caraway Seeds, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Caraway Seeds? ▼
Whole Caraway Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 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 Whole Caraway Seeds so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Caraway Seeds appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Caraway Seeds). 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.