Bifidus
Bifidus appears in 1,012 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
Bifidus appears in 1,012 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.
- 1,012
- catalogued products
- #660
- usage rank of 247,206
- 155
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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.
Bifidus sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#660 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #660
- 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
- 76%
- Mean relative depth 76% across 1,012 parsed labels, slot 10.6 on average. Bifidus tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bifidus spans 155 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 0% Fat Greek Nonfat Yogurt; 0% Nonfat Greek Yogurt With Fruit; 2% Low-Fat Greek Yogurt, Banana, Caramel & Rum when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
155 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 797 of 990 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 Bifidus
Across the 1,012 products on this site that list Bifidus, 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 Bifidus products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 20 | 2% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 20 | 2% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 1.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 1.6% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 13 | 1.3% | 1.8% |
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 Bifidus
Products Containing Bifidus
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,012 indexed products containing Bifidus:
Bifidus vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Bifidus: 1,012 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bacterial Culture · Vitamin E Acetate · Dehydrated Bell Pepper. 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.
Using the Bifidus evidence
1,012 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bifidus are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Bifidus before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Bifidus with a peer such as “Bacterial Culture” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Bifidus
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bifidus? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bifidus, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#660 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bifidus? ▼
Bifidus ranks in the top decile by product count (#660 of 247,206), appearing in 1,012 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bifidus so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bifidus appears in 1,012 products (#660 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bifidus). 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.