Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking

Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking appears in 297 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

Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking appears in 297 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.

297
catalogued products
#1,494
usage rank of 247,206
74
named brands represented
74%
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.

High-volume listing for Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking - usage rank #1,494

Usage rank
#1,494
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 299 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
74%
Mean relative depth 74% across 299 parsed labels, slot 20.2 on average. Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 17.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking spans 74 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 3 cheese italian shredded parmesan, asiago fresh & romano cheese; 365 everyday value, organic vegetable lasagna; Aegean Greek Pasta when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

74 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 145 of 275 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 Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking

Across the 297 products on this site that list Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.8x more often with Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +4.3ppSodium Nitrite+4.3ppBHA: +4.7ppBHA+4.7ppBHT: +4ppBHT+4ppCarrageenan: +0.2ppCarrageenan+0.2ppCaramel Coloring: -1ppCaramel Coloring-1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
4.3pp
BHA
4.7pp
BHT
4pp
Carrageenan
0.2pp
Caramel Coloring
-1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 20 6.7% 2.4%
BHA 16 5.4% 0.7%
BHT 15 5.1% 1.1%
Carrageenan 14 4.7% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 14 4.7% 5.7%

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 Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Brown Rice Crisps”)

Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking sits among other busy catalog rows (297 products, mean score 95.6/100). Nearest count peers include “Brown Rice Crisps”, “High Oleic Soybean”, “Skim Milk Solids”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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.

What to do with this Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking record

Use the 297-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking next to “High Oleic Soybean” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,494 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking?

Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,494 of 247,206), appearing in 297 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking appears in 297 products (#1,494 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking). 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.