Yellow Squash
Yellow Squash appears in 172 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 Squash appears in 172 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.
- 172
- catalogued products
- #2,148
- usage rank of 247,206
- 66
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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 Squash: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,148 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,148
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 172 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 172 parsed labels, slot 8.3 on average. Yellow Squash 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 9.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Squash spans 66 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Asian Griller; Asparagus Stir Fry; Balsamic Mozzarella Chicken when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
66 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 141 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 Squash
Across the 172 products on this site that list Yellow Squash, 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 Squash products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 8 | 4.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 4.1% | 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 Yellow Squash
Products Containing Yellow Squash
High-volume slice (16 of 172) for products naming Yellow Squash:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Lycopene”)
High-volume peers for Yellow Squash: 172 products, mean screening score 99.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Lycopene”, “Potassium Sorbate And Citric Acid”, “Ricotta”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Yellow Squash record
172 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow Squash are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Yellow Squash before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Yellow Squash with a peer such as “Lycopene” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yellow Squash? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Squash, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,148 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Squash? ▼
Yellow Squash ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,148 of 247,206), appearing in 172 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 Squash so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Squash appears in 172 products (#2,148 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Squash). 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.