Anticaking Agent

Anticaking Agent appears in 858 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 Agent appears in 858 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.

858
catalogued products
#731
usage rank of 247,206
245
named brands represented
76%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 261 of 858 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 25% Less Sodium Taco Seasoning Mix; 25% Less Sodium Taco Seasoning Mix Value Size; 90 second rice roasted chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Anticaking Agent itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

261 of 858 linked records have some flagged component

All 845 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.

Anticaking Agent: top-decile catalog footprint (#731 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#731
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
76%
Mean relative depth 76% across 858 parsed labels, slot 20.4 on average. Anticaking Agent tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Agent

Across the 858 products on this site that list Anticaking Agent, 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 2.1x more often with Anticaking Agent than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +6ppCaramel Coloring+6ppRed 40: +2.6ppRed 40+2.6ppYellow 5: +2.5ppYellow 5+2.5ppTitanium Dioxide: +4.4ppTitanium Dioxide+4.4ppYellow 6: +3ppYellow 6+3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Anticaking Agent products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
6pp
Red 40
2.6pp
Yellow 5
2.5pp
Titanium Dioxide
4.4pp
Yellow 6
3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Anticaking Agent products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 100 11.7% 5.7%
Red 40 69 8% 5.4%
Yellow 5 63 7.3% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 56 6.5% 2.1%
Yellow 6 55 6.4% 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 Anticaking Agent

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Anticaking Agent
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.

Anticaking Agent vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Anticaking Agent: 858 products, mean screening score 89.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Sweet Potatoes · Turbinado Sugar · Whole Oat Flour. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Anticaking Agent record

Use the 858-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Anticaking Agent and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Anticaking Agent next to “Turbinado Sugar” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Anticaking Agent 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 Agent. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Anticaking Agent?

Anticaking Agent ranks in the top decile by product count (#731 of 247,206), appearing in 858 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Anticaking Agent so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Anticaking Agent appears in 858 products (#731 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Anticaking Agent). 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.