Active Cultures
Active Cultures appears in 84 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 Cultures appears in 84 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.
- 84
- catalogued products
- #3,559
- usage rank of 248,027
- 30
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
Where Active Cultures sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #3,559
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 84 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 84 products listing it (mean slot 10.3). Active Cultures usually falls in the lower 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. 248,027 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 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Active Cultures spans 30 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Black garlic; Carb master peach; Carbmaster when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 79 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 Active Cultures
Across the 84 products on this site that list Active Cultures, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.4x more often with Active Cultures than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Active Cultures products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 9 | 10.7% | 4.5% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 5 | 6% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 5 | 6% | 2.7% |
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Active Cultures
A sample of 16 of the 84 indexed products containing Active Cultures, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Active Cultures safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Active Cultures, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Active Cultures? ▼
Active Cultures is found in 84 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Active Cultures do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Active Cultures. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
