Bentonite
Bentonite carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Bentonite appears in 6 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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 Bentonite - usage rank #21,732
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Mean relative depth 47% across 6 parsed labels, slot 10.3 on average. Bentonite tends to sit in the upper half of the 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bentonite spans 4 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with Baby Mineral Zinc Oxide Sunscreen Lotion; Crème Relipidante; Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 4 of 4 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.
Function
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 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 Bentonite
Products Containing Bentonite
6 busy labels from the 6 indexed products that list Bentonite:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Bentonite: 6 listings averaging 99.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Bentonite evidence
Start from Bentonite's 6 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bentonite to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Bentonite? ▼
Bentonite has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bentonite? ▼
Bentonite ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Bentonite do in food? ▼
Bentonite is recorded as a dough strengthener, flour treating agent, oxidizing or reducing agent, processing aid, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bentonite). 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.