Active Bacterial Cultures
Active Bacterial Cultures appears in 20 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
Active Bacterial Cultures appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
Active Bacterial Cultures: top-decile catalog footprint (#9,371 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 20 products listing it (mean slot 7.5). Active Bacterial Cultures usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Active Bacterial Cultures spans 13 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Balkan Yogurt; Cava, Tzatziki; Danone when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 18 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 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 Active Bacterial Cultures
Products Containing Active Bacterial Cultures
16 busy labels from the 20 indexed products that list Active Bacterial Cultures:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Active Bacterial Cultures: 20 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. 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 Active Bacterial Cultures evidence
20 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Active Bacterial Cultures are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Active Bacterial Cultures before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Active Bacterial Cultures
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Active Bacterial Cultures? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Active Bacterial Cultures, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Active Bacterial Cultures? ▼
Active Bacterial Cultures ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Active Bacterial Cultures so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Active Bacterial Cultures appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Active Bacterial Cultures). 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.