Choline
Choline appears in 82 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
Choline appears in 82 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.
- 82
- catalogued products
- #3,608
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
Choline sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,608 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,608
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 82 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 82 products listing it (mean slot 23.1). Choline usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Choline spans 55 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with 1st Phorm, Megawatt Strawberry Lemonade; 3rd Trimester Prenatal Pack; Advanced Hair + Nail Care when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
55 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 70 of 78 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 Choline
Across the 82 products on this site that list Choline, 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.5x more often with Choline than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Choline products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 10 | 12.2% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 6 | 7.3% | 1.8% |
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.
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 Choline
Products Containing Choline
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 82 indexed products containing Choline:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added Color”)
Top-decile company for Choline: 82 listings averaging 96.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added Color · Ammonium Phosphate · Arôme Naturel.
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.
Using the Choline evidence
Use the 82-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Choline and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Choline next to “Ammonium Phosphate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Choline — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Choline? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Choline, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,608 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Choline? ▼
Choline ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,608 of 247,206), appearing in 82 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Choline so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Choline appears in 82 products (#3,608 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Choline). 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.