Chicory Root Extract
Chicory Root Extract appears in 674 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
Chicory Root Extract appears in 674 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.
- 674
- catalogued products
- #860
- usage rank of 247,206
- 121
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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 Chicory Root Extract - usage rank #860
- Usage rank
- #860
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Mean relative depth 33% across 674 parsed labels, slot 7.9 on average. Chicory Root Extract tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chicory Root Extract spans 121 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 90 Calorie Cereal Bars; 90 Calorie S'Mores Soft-Baked Bars; Almond & Coconut Nut Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
121 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 659 of 668 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 Chicory Root Extract
Across the 674 products on this site that list Chicory Root Extract, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chicory Root Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 45 | 6.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 42 | 6.2% | 5.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 37 | 5.5% | 0.5% |
| Red 40 | 10 | 1.5% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 10 | 1.5% | 4.2% |
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 Chicory Root Extract
Products Containing Chicory Root Extract
16 busy labels from the 674 indexed products that list Chicory Root Extract:
Chicory Root Extract vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Chicory Root Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (674 products, mean score 97.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Fruit · Enriched Macaroni Product · Whole Grain Brown Rice Flour. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Chicory Root Extract page
Use the 674-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Chicory Root Extract before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Chicory Root Extract with a peer such as “Fruit” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chicory Root Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chicory Root Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#860 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chicory Root Extract? ▼
Chicory Root Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#860 of 247,206), appearing in 674 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chicory Root Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicory Root Extract appears in 674 products (#860 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicory Root Extract). 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.