Foods With Carrageenan
18,307 US grocery products in this catalogue list Carrageenan on the label. 11,025 of them carry both a product name and a brand and can be listed by name.
18,307 US products list Carrageenan (2.0% of 894,137)
Carrageenan is one of the catalogue's high-frequency additives: it appears on more than one in every fifty US products recorded here (2.0% of 894,137). Among the 11 additives with a page here, Carrageenan has the fourth-largest footprint, behind Yellow 5 (19,566 products) and ahead of Sucralose (10,913). Counts come from Open Food Facts labels joined in PlainFoodSafe; FDA SAFFA and CSPI status appear only when the registry record exists. This page reports label occurrence and attributed status, not whether anyone should eat the product.
- 2.0% catalogue share
- 11,025 named brand matches
- Kroger largest brand footprint
The short answer
Kroger accounts for the most named products listing Carrageenan in this extract (235 of 11,025 listable matches); brand #15 on the same list has 80, and the median of these 15 brand counts is 90.
- 18,307
- US products listing Carrageenan
- 2.0%
- of 894,137 catalogue records
- 235
- Kroger leads named-brand matches
- 80
- brand #15 cutoff on this list
Counts are label occurrence in the current Open Food Facts snapshot, not a recall, certification, or medical recommendation.
Carrageenan is one of the catalogue's high-frequency additives: it appears on more than one in every fifty US products recorded here (2.0% of 894,137). Among the 11 additives with a page here, Carrageenan has the fourth-largest footprint, behind Yellow 5 (19,566 products) and ahead of Sucralose (10,913). The mean position on the ingredient list is 17.4, deep in the weight-ordered label, which is where trace-quantity additives are declared. Its closest companion on a label is Polysorbate 80, which shows up on 13.6% of these labels against 1.3% of the catalogue at large, roughly 10 times its background rate, so the two are being formulated together rather than meeting by coincidence.
No state in our regulatory table records an action naming Carrageenan. The FDA SAFFA record lists it as "GRAS". CSPI's Chemical Cuisine classification for it is "Caution", which is CSPI's rating, not PlainFoodSafe's.
Brands with the most products listing Carrageenan
No single brand dominates: the largest, Kroger, holds 2.1% of listable matches, and the fifteen below together cover 1,743, so this is a broad industry-wide ingredient rather than one company's formulation habit.
| # | Brand | Listing Carrageenan |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kroger | 235 |
| 2 | Blue Bunny | 230 |
| 3 | Great Value | 160 |
| 4 | Kemps | 121 |
| 5 | Dean's | 107 |
| 6 | Meijer | 102 |
| 7 | International Delight | 100 |
| 8 | Weis | 90 |
| 9 | Harris Teeter | 89 |
| 10 | Turkey Hill | 89 |
| 11 | Food Club | 86 |
| 12 | Spartan | 86 |
| 13 | Ben & Jerry's | 85 |
| 14 | Premier Protein | 83 |
| 15 | Giant Eagle | 80 |
Where these products sit by category
By the label's own primary category, matches cluster hardest in Desserts (2,819 products, 25.6% of listable matches).
| Primary category (as labelled) | Products |
|---|---|
| Desserts | 2,819 |
| Dairies | 1,269 |
| Snacks | 1,098 |
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 596 |
| Meats and their products | 426 |
| Beverages | 408 |
| Frozen foods | 316 |
| Meals | 282 |
| Condiments | 271 |
| Dietary supplements | 163 |
What else is on the same labels
Share of Carrageenan labels carrying each ingredient, next to that ingredient's share of the whole catalogue. A co-occurrence close to the baseline means the two simply meet by chance.
| Ingredient | On Carrageenan labels | Catalogue baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 13.6% | 1.3% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11.4% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 8.5% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 7.4% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 7.3% | 4.2% |
Named products listing Carrageenan
Thirty of the 11,025 listable matches, ordered by how many flagged additives each label carries in total. Every row links to that product's own record.
Methodology
Matches come from the parsed ingredient links in the PlainFoodSafe database: a product counts here when its OpenFoodFacts ingredient list resolves to the Carrageenan record. The headline 18,307 is every matching product in the catalogue; the 11,025 listable figure is the subset that also carries a usable product name and brand, which is what the tables above can show by name. Regulatory status is read from the FDA SAFFA extract and the state-action table; the rating word is CSPI's own classification. See the full methodology for how the catalogue is built and dated. The additive status we quote is the FDA's own, so read it at the source: Verify with FDA Substances Added to Food → Source: OpenFoodFacts, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Caveats and limitations
OpenFoodFacts is crowdsourced, so coverage varies by category and brand and a label recorded here may be out of date relative to the product on the shelf today, because reformulation is common and this catalogue reflects the snapshot it was built from, not a live audit of packaging. Ingredient parsing normalises label spellings and can miss unusual ones, so treat the counts as a floor rather than a census. Presence on a label says nothing about quantity, and nothing on this page is a statement about whether any product is safe for any particular person to eat; for that, read the Carrageenan source record and the named regulators directly.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every count on this page is computed from the parsed OpenFoodFacts ingredient links and the FDA/state source tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.