Amylase

Amylase carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 632 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”

Source-backed answer

Amylase appears in 632 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

632
catalogued products
#895
usage rank of 247,206
213
named brands represented
61%
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.

Amylase: top-decile catalog footprint (#895 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#895
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 632 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
61%
Averaged label depth puts Amylase in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 25.0). 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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 173 of 632 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, mini pizzas, three cheese; ALL BUTTER MINI CROISSANTS; All Butter Sandwich Croissants to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Amylase itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

173 of 632 linked records have some flagged component

All 619 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

What else is usually in the same product as Amylase

Across the 632 products on this site that list Amylase, 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 3.3x more often with Amylase than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +5.4ppSodium Nitrite+5.4ppCaramel Coloring: +1.4ppCaramel Coloring+1.4ppPolysorbate 60: +4.3ppPolysorbate 60+4.3ppCarrageenan: +1ppCarrageenan+1ppPolysorbate 80: +3.4ppPolysorbate 80+3.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Amylase products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
5.4pp
Caramel Coloring
1.4pp
Polysorbate 60
4.3pp
Carrageenan
1pp
Polysorbate 80
3.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Amylase products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 49 7.8% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 45 7.1% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 36 5.7% 1.4%
Carrageenan 35 5.5% 4.5%
Polysorbate 80 30 4.7% 1.3%

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.

Function

Flavoring

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 Amylase

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Amylase
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Almondmilk”)

Amylase sits among other busy catalog rows (632 products, mean score 91.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Almondmilk”, “Flavourings”, “Tbhq And Citric Acid”. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Amylase record

Start from Amylase's 632 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Amylase to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Amylase with a peer such as “Almondmilk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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 Amylase

Does Amylase carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Amylase itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Amylase?

Amylase ranks in the top decile by product count (#895 of 247,206), appearing in 632 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Amylase do in food?

Amylase is recorded as a flavoring in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Amylase). 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.