38g
38g appears in 12 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
38g appears in 12 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.
- 12
- catalogued products
- #13,357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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.
38g: top-decile catalog footprint (#13,357 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #13,357
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Averaged label depth puts 38g in the upper half of the list (33% of list length, mean slot 11.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: 38g spans 5 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Artesano bakery bread sourdough; Barryhill Hot Fudge Topping; Creamy Caramel Dip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 11 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 12 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 38g
Products Containing 38g
A sample of 12 high-volume listings among the 12 indexed products containing 38g:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for 38g: 12 products, mean screening score 95.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the 38g evidence
Use the 12-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing 38g before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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 38g? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to 38g, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#13,357 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with 38g? ▼
38g ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is 38g so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet 38g appears in 12 products (#13,357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (38g). 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.