Calcium Oxide
Calcium Oxide carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 15 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Oxide appears in 15 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.
- 15
- catalogued products
- #11,449
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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 Oxide: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,449 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,449
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Mean relative depth 78% across 15 parsed labels, slot 20.7 on average. Calcium Oxide 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 15 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cookwell & company, all natural olive & lemon vinaigrette; HEB Tortilla Chips; Indian puppodums to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Calcium Oxide itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4 of 15 linked records have some flagged component
All 15 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, TEXTURIZER
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 15 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 Oxide
Products Containing Calcium Oxide
15 busy labels from the 15 indexed products that list Calcium Oxide:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Calcium Oxide: 15 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Calcium Oxide page
15 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Calcium Oxide are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Calcium Oxide 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
- 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.
Calcium Oxide — common follow-ups
Does Calcium Oxide 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 Oxide 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 Oxide? ▼
Calcium Oxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Calcium Oxide do in food? ▼
Calcium Oxide is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, dough strengthener, firming agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Oxide). 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.