Products tracked
894,137
407,933 scored
Food Safety Rankings
Ingredient-screening rankings across 894,137 US food products, current as of September 2026. Two boards sit below: average screening score (10+ scored products) and flagged-additive share (50+ scored products). Neither list is a recall, certification, or health finding.
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Ingredient-screening rankings across 894,137 US food products and 35,235 brands
PlainFoodSafe ranks brands and products from Open Food Facts labels joined to FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine flags. Average score across 407,933 scored products is 92.8/100; among brands with 50+ scored products, Totino's leads flagged share at 98.6%. These lists summarize the current source snapshot; they are not recalls, certifications, or medical advice.
- 92.8 avg score (scored set)
- 26 flagged additives
- 35,235 brands tracked
The short answer
Among 804 brands with 50+ scored products, Totino's leads flagged share at 98.6% (#1 of 804) on 139 scored products (size #245). Great Value is the largest scored set at 3,132 products (#1 of 804) and ranks #253 on flagged share at 29.0%. A high rate on a small measured set is not the same catalog fact as a modest rate on a large one.
- 98.6%
- Totino's flagged share, #1 of 804
- 3,132
- Great Value scored products, #1 of 804
- #245
- Totino's size rank on the same 50+ scored board
- 29.0%
- Great Value flagged share, #253 of 804
Open Food Facts labels joined to FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine flags. Not a recall, certification, or health finding.
Rankings draw on FDA food-additive status data and the Open Food Facts product database. Flagged-share brand rankings require 50+ scored products to qualify. Safety scores are a transparent derived index we compute from this public data, not an official FDA rating; see our methodology for how we classify and weight each ingredient.
Brands tracked
35,235
Flagged additives
26
Registry set
Avg safety score
92.8/100
Safe
Highest flagged share among measured brands
Among brands with 50+ scored products, the percentage of that scored set containing at least one flagged additive. Each brand name below opens its source-derived brand record.
Top 12 by flagged share
The bar to make this view
The #12 cutoff among brands with 50+ scored products
93% 56th percentile is at or above the flagged share of 56% of the 25 qualifying brands we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more qualifying brands. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0%–10%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 10%–20%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 20%–30%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 30%–40%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 40%–50%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 50%–60%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 60%–70%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 70%–80%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 80%–90%
- 3 qualifying brands (12%)
- 90% and above
- 22 qualifying brands (88%)
Source Open Food Facts × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Rate and measured set
Each point is the matching position in the Top 12 bars. The vertical axis is flagged share; the horizontal axis is the number of scored products behind that rate.
The 50-product line is the inclusion minimum; the horizontal line is the 18% median for all 804 qualifying brands. This is a source-snapshot comparison, not a recall, certification, or health finding.
Read the chart values
- #1 Totino's: 98.6% flagged share across 139 scored products.
- #2 Kool-Aid: 98.4% flagged share across 125 scored products.
- #3 Buddig: 98.4% flagged share across 61 scored products.
- #4 Twizzlers: 98.3% flagged share across 58 scored products.
- #5 Trolli: 98.1% flagged share across 103 scored products.
- #6 Land O'Frost Inc.: 97.4% flagged share across 76 scored products.
- #7 Bar S: 97.3% flagged share across 75 scored products.
- #8 Faygo: 96.4% flagged share across 56 scored products.
- #9 Walden Farms: 94.4% flagged share across 72 scored products.
- #10 Airheads: 93.0% flagged share across 71 scored products.
- #11 Crystal Light: 92.7% flagged share across 109 scored products.
- #12 Ghost: 92.6% flagged share across 54 scored products.
Highest Average Scores
Brands with at least 10 scored products, ordered by average score and then scored-set size (bar = relative scored-set size).
| # | Brand | Avg score | Scored | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob's Red Mill | 100.0 | 517 | 632 |
| 2 | Kind | 100.0 | 328 | 511 |
| 3 | Nature Valley | 100.0 | 277 | 492 |
| 4 | Beech-Nut | 100.0 | 242 | 258 |
| 5 | Clif | 100.0 | 229 | 317 |
| 6 | Organic Valley | 100.0 | 193 | 241 |
| 7 | Woodstock | 100.0 | 176 | 231 |
| 8 | Cadia | 100.0 | 167 | 263 |
| 9 | Vega | 100.0 | 162 | 231 |
| 10 | Häagen-Dazs | 100.0 | 155 | 203 |
| 11 | HappyBABY | 100.0 | 149 | 180 |
| 12 | Back To Nature | 100.0 | 147 | 172 |
| 13 | Larabar | 100.0 | 145 | 217 |
| 14 | Belgioioso | 100.0 | 139 | 226 |
| 15 | Thrive Market | 100.0 | 137 | 296 |
| 16 | Greenwise | 100.0 | 128 | 376 |
| 17 | The Pictsweet Company | 100.0 | 128 | 128 |
| 18 | Nature's Path | 100.0 | 125 | 171 |
| 19 | Orgain | 100.0 | 122 | 255 |
| 20 | Central Market | 100.0 | 120 | 425 |
| 21 | Naked | 100.0 | 109 | 190 |
| 22 | Once Upon A Farm | 100.0 | 109 | 135 |
| 23 | H-E-B Organics | 100.0 | 104 | 290 |
| 24 | Purely Elizabeth | 100.0 | 104 | 154 |
| 25 | Cascadian Farm | 100.0 | 103 | 122 |
What this shows.Bar width is each brand's scored-set size as a share of the list leader. Hover a focal cell for share-of-leader and rank.
Most Flagged Brands
Brands by share of scored products carrying a flagged additive (bar = flagged share). Requires 50+ scored products to qualify.
"Flagged" means at least one ingredient is on the FDA SAFFA or CSPI caution list, it is not a recall, a ban, or a danger rating, and this share is not adjusted for product-mix or category (a candy-heavy brand and a produce-heavy brand aren't directly comparable). See methodology.
| # | Brand | Flagged % | Scored | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totino's | 98.6% | 139 | 171 |
| 2 | Kool-Aid | 98.4% | 125 | 149 |
| 3 | Buddig | 98.4% | 61 | 78 |
| 4 | Twizzlers | 98.3% | 58 | 72 |
| 5 | Trolli | 98.1% | 103 | 186 |
| 6 | Land O'Frost Inc. | 97.4% | 76 | 76 |
| 7 | Bar S | 97.3% | 75 | 91 |
| 8 | Faygo | 96.4% | 56 | 102 |
| 9 | Walden Farms | 94.4% | 72 | 92 |
| 10 | Airheads | 93.0% | 71 | 100 |
| 11 | Crystal Light | 92.7% | 109 | 149 |
| 12 | Ghost | 92.6% | 54 | 192 |
| 13 | Brach's | 92.3% | 221 | 295 |
| 14 | Purple Cow | 92.3% | 91 | 100 |
| 15 | Trident | 91.8% | 98 | 151 |
| 16 | Mt. Olive | 91.6% | 119 | 154 |
| 17 | Blue Bunny | 91.4% | 266 | 307 |
| 18 | Nissin | 91.2% | 91 | 156 |
| 19 | Prime | 91.2% | 57 | 140 |
| 20 | Ice Breakers | 91.1% | 56 | 92 |
| 21 | The Jel Sert Company | 90.8% | 65 | 65 |
| 22 | Charms | 90.2% | 51 | 84 |
| 23 | Skittles | 88.6% | 70 | 146 |
| 24 | Pop-Tarts | 88.5% | 78 | 115 |
| 25 | M&M's | 88.4% | 146 | 254 |
What this shows.Bar width is the flagged-product share itself (leader ≈ full track). Hover a focal cell for share-of-leader and rank.
Products carrying the most flagged additives
Individual product records ranked by count of FDA SAFFA or CSPI Chemical Cuisine flagged ingredients on the stored label. Celebration Cake, Yellow Cake With Icing leads at 14 flagged terms; bars show relative count among the top 10.
Flagged-ingredient leaders
Products ordered by flagged-ingredient count (bar = relative count). Each name opens its barcode record.
What this shows.Bar width is flagged-ingredient count as a share of the top product on this list. Hover a focal cell for share-of-leader and rank.
Perfect score products
Products at 100/100 with zero flagged ingredients in the current snapshot.
What this shows.Every row is a perfect 100/100 score: bars are full-width to show equal magnitude on this list.
Deeper rankings
Foods With Aspartame
Which named US products list Aspartame — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With BHT
Which named US products list BHT — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Carrageenan
Which named US products list Carrageenan — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Which named US products list High-Fructose Corn Syrup — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With MSG
Which named US products list MSG — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Potassium Bromate
Which named US products list Potassium Bromate — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Red Dye 40
Which named US products list Red Dye 40 — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Sucralose
Which named US products list Sucralose — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With TBHQ
Which named US products list TBHQ — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Titanium Dioxide
Which named US products list Titanium Dioxide — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Foods With Yellow 5
Which named US products list Yellow 5 — brands, categories, label position and named examples.
Top 20 Most Common Food Additives in US Products
The additives appearing in the most US grocery products, ranked live from the catalogue.
Turn a ranking into a named check
Use the boards above to choose a brand or product worth inspecting, then open its stored record rather than treating a rank position as a recall or health outcome.
- Compare flagged share with scored-set size before treating a brand rank as meaningful, the scatter chart above separates rate from catalogue depth. Open Totino's's brand record
- Inspect the exact label fields and additive annotations for one barcode when a product appears on the flagged-ingredient board. Open the top flagged product
- See additive frequency across the full catalogue when the question is prevalence, not screening score. View additive frequency ranking
Rankings summarize the current Open Food Facts snapshot joined to FDA SAFFA and CSPI flags. They do not establish a recall, ban, exposure level, or individual medical or safety outcome.
Download the additive-frequency ranking extract: most-common-food-additives-us-products.csv · more tables on Open Data Downloads.