Anticaking
Anticaking appears in 219 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
Anticaking appears in 219 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.
- 219
- catalogued products
- #1,834
- usage rank of 247,206
- 57
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 79 of 219 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 5 crab cakes; Adjustable Grinder; Adobo Seasoning to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Anticaking itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
79 of 219 linked records have some flagged component
All 212 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
Anticaking: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,834 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,834
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 219 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Averaged label depth puts Anticaking near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 20.8). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Anticaking
Across the 219 products on this site that list Anticaking, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Anticaking than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Anticaking products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 10.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 18 | 8.2% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 14 | 6.4% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 12 | 5.5% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 11 | 5% | 2.7% |
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 Anticaking
Products Containing Anticaking
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 219 indexed products containing Anticaking:
High-volume peers for Anticaking beside “Bleached Flour”
Anticaking sits among other busy catalog rows (219 products, mean score 92.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bleached Flour; Natural Garlic Flavor; Lowfat Yogurt. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Anticaking record
Use the 219-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Anticaking before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Anticaking with a peer such as “Bleached Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Anticaking
Does Anticaking 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 Anticaking. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Anticaking? ▼
Anticaking ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,834 of 247,206), appearing in 219 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Anticaking so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Anticaking appears in 219 products (#1,834 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Anticaking). 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.