Bha And Bht

Bha And Bht appears in 62 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

Bha And Bht appears in 62 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.

62
catalogued products
#4,302
usage rank of 247,206
27
named brands represented
79%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

54.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bha And Bht as the trigger. Open records such as Beef flavored rice & vermicelli mix with beef broth & herbs rice medley; Beef Pot Roast; Bite Size Pepperoni Sticks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 79% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

54.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 61 of 61 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Bha And Bht - usage rank #4,302

Usage rank
#4,302
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 46 others that also appear in exactly 62 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
79%
Mean relative depth 79% across 62 parsed labels, slot 23.5 on average. Bha And Bht tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Bha And Bht

Across the 62 products on this site that list Bha And Bht, 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 3.4x more often with Bha And Bht than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +13.7ppCaramel Coloring+13.7ppSodium Nitrite: +12.1ppSodium Nitrite+12.1ppCarrageenan: +5.2ppCarrageenan+5.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Bha And Bht 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
13.7pp
Sodium Nitrite
12.1pp
Carrageenan
5.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Bha And Bht products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 12 19.4% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 9 14.5% 2.4%
Carrageenan 6 9.7% 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 Bha And Bht

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 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bha And Bht
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 “With Added Calcium”)

Bha And Bht sits among other busy catalog rows (62 products, mean score 89.6/100). Nearest count peers include “With Added Calcium”, “Almond Paste”, “Natural Applewood Smoke Flavor”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

What to do with this Bha And Bht record

Start from Bha And Bht's 62 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Bha And Bht to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Place Bha And Bht next to “Almond Paste” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Questions readers ask about Bha And Bht

How should I read safety signals when Bha And Bht sits in heavily flagged products?

54.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bha And Bht is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Bha And Bht?

Bha And Bht ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,302 of 247,206), appearing in 62 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Bha And Bht so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bha And Bht appears in 62 products (#4,302 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bha And Bht). 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.