Anti-caking Blend
Anti-caking Blend appears in 359 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 Blend appears in 359 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.
- 359
- catalogued products
- #1,306
- usage rank of 247,206
- 61
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Anti-caking Blend: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,306 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,306
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 359 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Mean relative depth 60% across 359 parsed labels, slot 13.7 on average. Anti-caking Blend tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Anti-caking Blend spans 61 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with A blend of finely shredded colby and monterey jack cheeses; A blend of shredded cheddar and monterey jack; A natural blend of finely shredded monterey jack when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
61 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 272 of 345 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 Anti-caking Blend
Across the 359 products on this site that list Anti-caking Blend, 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 4x more often with Anti-caking Blend than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Anti-caking Blend products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 35 | 9.7% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 31 | 8.6% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 30 | 8.4% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 4.7% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 2.5% | 2.1% |
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 Anti-caking Blend
Products Containing Anti-caking Blend
16 busy labels from the 359 indexed products that list Anti-caking Blend:
Anti-caking Blend vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Anti-caking Blend: 359 products, mean screening score 95.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Acetate · Diced Tomatoes In Juice · Ginger Root. 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.
What to do with this Anti-caking Blend record
359 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Anti-caking Blend are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Anti-caking Blend to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Anti-caking Blend next to “Diced Tomatoes In Juice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Anti-caking Blend — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Anti-caking Blend? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Anti-caking Blend, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,306 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Anti-caking Blend? ▼
Anti-caking Blend ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,306 of 247,206), appearing in 359 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Anti-caking Blend so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Anti-caking Blend appears in 359 products (#1,306 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Anti-caking Blend). 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.