Added To Retain Moisture
Added To Retain Moisture appears in 72 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 Retain Moisture appears in 72 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.
- 72
- catalogued products
- #3,897
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- named brands represented
- 90%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Added To Retain Moisture - usage rank #3,897
- Usage rank
- #3,897
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 72 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 90%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 72 products listing it (mean slot 4.7). Added To Retain Moisture usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Added To Retain Moisture spans 16 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Arrowtooth Flounder Fillets; Big Easy Foods, Gulf Shrimp; Big Easy Foods, Wild Caught Cooked Gulf Shrimp when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
16 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 68 of 70 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 Added To Retain Moisture
Products Containing Added To Retain Moisture
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 72 indexed products containing Added To Retain Moisture:
Added To Retain Moisture vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Added To Retain Moisture sits among other busy catalog rows (72 products, mean score 99.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Almond Oil”, “Natural Banana Flavoring”, “Beta-alanine”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Added To Retain Moisture page
Use the 72-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Added To Retain Moisture 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. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Added To Retain Moisture — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Added To Retain Moisture? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Added To Retain Moisture, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,897 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Added To Retain Moisture? ▼
Added To Retain Moisture ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,897 of 247,206), appearing in 72 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Added To Retain Moisture so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Added To Retain Moisture appears in 72 products (#3,897 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Added To Retain Moisture). 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.