Bacterial Cultures
Bacterial Cultures appears in 139 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 Cultures appears in 139 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.
- 139
- catalogued products
- #2,484
- usage rank of 247,206
- 77
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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: 37 of 139 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare apple banana peach with yogurt baby food puree; apple banana raspberry with yogurt baby food puree; apple banana strawberry with yogurt baby food puree to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bacterial Cultures 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.
37 of 139 linked records have some flagged component
All 130 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.
Bacterial Cultures: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,484 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,484
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 139 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Bacterial Cultures in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 16.2). 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 Bacterial Cultures
Across the 139 products on this site that list Bacterial Cultures, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 3.1x more often with Bacterial Cultures than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bacterial Cultures products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 6.5% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 5% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 4.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 4.3% | 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 Bacterial Cultures
Products Containing Bacterial Cultures
High-volume slice (16 of 139) for products naming Bacterial Cultures:
Bacterial Cultures vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Bacterial Cultures: 139 listings averaging 93.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors”, “Carob Powder”, “Distilled Water”.
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.
Using the Bacterial Cultures evidence
Use the 139-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Bacterial Cultures before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Bacterial Cultures with a peer such as “Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Bacterial Cultures 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 Cultures. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bacterial Cultures? ▼
Bacterial Cultures ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,484 of 247,206), appearing in 139 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bacterial Cultures so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bacterial Cultures appears in 139 products (#2,484 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bacterial Cultures). 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.