Calcium Silicate
Calcium Silicate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,293 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Silicate appears in 1,293 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.
- 1,293
- catalogued products
- #565
- usage rank of 247,206
- 291
- 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.
Calcium Silicate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#565 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #565
- 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
- 71%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Silicate in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 16.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Calcium Silicate as the trigger. Open records such as 0 Calorie Saccharin Sweetener; 100% whole wheat english muffins, whole wheat; 5 cheese bread and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.3/100 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.
61.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1239 of 1286 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Calcium Silicate
Across the 1,293 products on this site that list Calcium Silicate, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 18.9x more often with Calcium Silicate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Silicate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 440 | 34% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 339 | 26.2% | 5.4% |
| Aspartame | 335 | 25.9% | 0.9% |
| Blue 1 | 235 | 18.2% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 209 | 16.2% | 4.8% |
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.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT
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 Silicate
Products Containing Calcium Silicate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,293 indexed products containing Calcium Silicate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Stevia”)
Top-decile company for Calcium Silicate: 1,293 listings averaging 70.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Stevia; Grain Vinegar; Distilled Monoglycerides.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Calcium Silicate record
Start from Calcium Silicate's 1,293 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Calcium Silicate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Calcium Silicate with a peer such as “Stevia” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Calcium Silicate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Calcium Silicate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Calcium Silicate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Calcium Silicate 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 Calcium Silicate? ▼
Calcium Silicate ranks in the top decile by product count (#565 of 247,206), appearing in 1,293 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Calcium Silicate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Calcium Silicate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, lubricant or release 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 (Calcium Silicate). 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.