Butyric Acid
Butyric Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Butyric Acid appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
Butyric Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7 products listing it (mean slot 24.1). Butyric Acid usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Butyric Acid as the trigger. Open records such as Chocolate Cream Bun; Green Chili & Mozzarella Corn Dog; M&M’s Chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 80.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 71% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7 of 7 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.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Butyric Acid
Products Containing Butyric Acid
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Butyric Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Butyric Acid: 7 listings averaging 80.7/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Butyric Acid page
Start from Butyric Acid's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Butyric Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Butyric Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Butyric Acid is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Butyric Acid scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Butyric Acid? ▼
Butyric Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Butyric Acid serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Butyric Acid is recorded as a antioxidant, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Butyric Acid). 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.