Calcium Lactate
Calcium Lactate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,250 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Lactate appears in 2,250 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.
- 2,250
- catalogued products
- #375
- usage rank of 247,206
- 591
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
Calcium Lactate: top-decile catalog footprint (#375 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #375
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Lactate in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 19.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 962 of 2250 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% apple juice; 100% APPLE JUICE; 100% apple juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Lactate 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.
962 of 2,250 linked records have some flagged component
All 2244 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Calcium Lactate
Across the 2,250 products on this site that list Calcium Lactate, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.8x more often with Calcium Lactate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Lactate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 337 | 15% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 280 | 12.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 262 | 11.6% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 216 | 9.6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 209 | 9.3% | 3.4% |
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.
Function
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Calcium Lactate
Products Containing Calcium Lactate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,250 indexed products containing Calcium Lactate:
Calcium Lactate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Calcium Lactate: 2,250 products, mean screening score 83.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Fruit Pectin; Brown Rice; Green Beans. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Calcium Lactate evidence
Use the 2,250-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Calcium Lactate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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
Does Calcium Lactate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Calcium Lactate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Calcium Lactate? ▼
Calcium Lactate ranks in the top decile by product count (#375 of 247,206), appearing in 2,250 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Calcium Lactate do in food? ▼
Calcium Lactate is recorded as a dough strengthener, firming agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, leavening agent, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Lactate). 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.