Anti-caking
Anti-caking appears in 325 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
Anti-caking appears in 325 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.
- 325
- catalogued products
- #1,406
- usage rank of 247,206
- 105
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 90 of 325 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 5 cheese thin crust pizza; 90 Second Long Grain And Wild Rice; All American Half Sub to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Anti-caking 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.
90 of 325 linked records have some flagged component
All 320 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.
High-volume listing for Anti-caking - usage rank #1,406
- Usage rank
- #1,406
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 325 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Averaged label depth puts Anti-caking in the lower half of the list (75% of list length, mean slot 22.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Anti-caking
Across the 325 products on this site that list Anti-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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Anti-caking products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 8.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 23 | 7.1% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 22 | 6.8% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 4% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 10 | 3.1% | 3.4% |
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 Anti-caking
Products Containing Anti-caking
High-volume slice (16 of 325) for products naming Anti-caking:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cultured Pasteurized Part-skim Milk”)
High-volume peers for Anti-caking: 325 products, mean screening score 93.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cultured Pasteurized Part-skim Milk · Red And Green Bell Peppers · Romano Cheese Made From Cow's Milk. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Anti-caking page
Use the 325-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Anti-caking and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Anti-caking with a peer such as “Cultured Pasteurized Part-skim Milk” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Anti-caking — common follow-ups
Does Anti-caking carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Anti-caking. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Anti-caking? ▼
Anti-caking ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,406 of 247,206), appearing in 325 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Anti-caking so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Anti-caking appears in 325 products (#1,406 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Anti-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.