Yellow Onion
Yellow Onion appears in 503 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
Yellow Onion appears in 503 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.
- 503
- catalogued products
- #1,034
- usage rank of 247,206
- 111
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Yellow Onion sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,034 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,034
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 503 parsed labels, slot 14.5 on average. Yellow Onion tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Onion spans 111 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 365 everyday value, roasted vegetable lasagna; Aardvark Habanero Hot Sauce; Alarm Chili Portabella Mushrooms when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
111 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 286 of 471 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 Yellow Onion
Across the 503 products on this site that list Yellow 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 Yellow Onion products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 41 | 8.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 27 | 5.4% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 19 | 3.8% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 15 | 3% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 15 | 3% | 1.1% |
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 Yellow Onion
Products Containing Yellow Onion
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 503 indexed products containing Yellow Onion:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Raising Agents”)
High-volume peers for Yellow Onion: 503 products, mean screening score 97.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Raising Agents · Gum Blend · Part Skim Milk. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Yellow Onion page
503 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow Onion are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Yellow Onion and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Yellow Onion with a peer such as “Raising Agents” 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow Onion — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yellow Onion? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Onion, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,034 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Onion? ▼
Yellow Onion ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,034 of 247,206), appearing in 503 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 Yellow Onion so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Onion appears in 503 products (#1,034 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow 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.