Added To Prevent Caking
Added To Prevent Caking appears in 599 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
Added To Prevent Caking appears in 599 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.
- 599
- catalogued products
- #938
- usage rank of 247,206
- 189
- named brands represented
- 80%
- 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.
Added To Prevent Caking: top-decile catalog footprint (#938 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #938
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 80%
- Averaged label depth puts Added To Prevent Caking near the end of the captured list (80% of list length, mean slot 18.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Added To Prevent Caking spans 189 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese; 100% grated parmesan cheese; 3 Cheese Blend, Grated Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
189 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 490 of 589 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 Added To Prevent Caking
Across the 599 products on this site that list Added To Prevent Caking, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.5x more often with Added To Prevent Caking than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Added To Prevent Caking products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 36 | 6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 26 | 4.3% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 20 | 3.3% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 16 | 2.7% | 1.1% |
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, 2026-09-01.
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 Added To Prevent Caking
Products Containing Added To Prevent Caking
16 busy labels from the 599 indexed products that list Added To Prevent Caking:
Added To Prevent Caking vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Added To Prevent Caking: 599 listings averaging 96.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chicken Base; Raisin Juice Concentrate; Reduced Lactose Whey.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Added To Prevent Caking evidence
599 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Added To Prevent Caking are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Added To Prevent Caking and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Added To Prevent Caking next to “Raisin Juice Concentrate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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 Added To Prevent Caking
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Added To Prevent Caking? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Added To Prevent Caking, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#938 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Added To Prevent Caking? ▼
Added To Prevent Caking ranks in the top decile by product count (#938 of 247,206), appearing in 599 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Added To Prevent Caking so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Added To Prevent Caking appears in 599 products (#938 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Added To Prevent Caking). 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.