B. Lactis

B. Lactis appears in 175 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

B. Lactis appears in 175 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.

175
catalogued products
#2,121
usage rank of 247,206
45
named brands represented
67%
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.

High-volume listing for B. Lactis - usage rank #2,121

Usage rank
#2,121
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 175 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 175 products listing it (mean slot 11.1). B. Lactis usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 3.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: B. Lactis spans 45 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 100% grass-fed cows drinkable plain yogurt; Ample K Vanilla Cinnamom; Authentic Strained Greek Nonfat Yogurt when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

45 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 125 of 161 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 B. Lactis

Across the 175 products on this site that list B. Lactis, 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 B. Lactis products Share of all products
Carrageenan 5 2.9% 4.5%

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 B. Lactis

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing B. Lactis
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 “Organic Expeller Pressed Safflower Oil”)

Top-decile company for B. Lactis: 175 listings averaging 99.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Expeller Pressed Safflower Oil · Hemp Protein · Pretzel.

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.

Next steps from the B. Lactis page

Start from B. Lactis's 175 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for B. Lactis and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Compare B. Lactis with a peer such as “Organic Expeller Pressed Safflower Oil” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on B. Lactis?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to B. Lactis, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,121 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with B. Lactis?

B. Lactis ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,121 of 247,206), appearing in 175 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is B. Lactis so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet B. Lactis appears in 175 products (#2,121 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (B. Lactis). 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.