Bacterial Culture
Bacterial Culture appears in 1,016 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
Bacterial Culture appears in 1,016 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.
- 1,016
- catalogued products
- #659
- usage rank of 247,206
- 264
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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: 275 of 1016 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Angus Beef Cheeseburger; 100% Parmesan Grated Cheese; 2 year aged cheddar cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bacterial Culture 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.
275 of 1,016 linked records have some flagged component
All 993 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 Bacterial Culture - usage rank #659
- Usage rank
- #659
- 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
- 52%
- Mean relative depth 52% across 1,016 parsed labels, slot 16.4 on average. Bacterial Culture 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Bacterial Culture
Across the 1,016 products on this site that list Bacterial Culture, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.8x more often with Bacterial Culture than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bacterial Culture products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 128 | 12.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 85 | 8.4% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 64 | 6.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 39 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 36 | 3.5% | 2.4% |
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 Bacterial Culture
Products Containing Bacterial Culture
High-volume slice (16 of 1,016) for products naming Bacterial Culture:
Bacterial Culture vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Bacterial Culture: 1,016 products, mean screening score 95.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Dehydrated Bell Pepper · Bifidus · Iodized Salt. 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 Bacterial Culture record
1,016 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bacterial Culture are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bacterial Culture to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Bacterial Culture with a peer such as “Dehydrated Bell Pepper” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Bacterial Culture
Does Bacterial Culture 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 Bacterial Culture. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bacterial Culture? ▼
Bacterial Culture ranks in the top decile by product count (#659 of 247,206), appearing in 1,016 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bacterial Culture so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bacterial Culture appears in 1,016 products (#659 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bacterial Culture). 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.