Clarified Butter
Clarified Butter appears in 279 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
Clarified Butter appears in 279 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.
- 279
- catalogued products
- #1,550
- usage rank of 247,206
- 87
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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 Clarified Butter - usage rank #1,550
- Usage rank
- #1,550
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 279 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Averaged label depth puts Clarified Butter in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 13.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 7.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Clarified Butter spans 87 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 365 everyday value, tandoori naan, roasted garlic; 365 everyday value, tandoori whole wheat naan; 4th & Heart, Ghee Clarified Butter, Original Recipe when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
87 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 190 of 251 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 Clarified Butter
Across the 279 products on this site that list Clarified Butter, 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 Clarified Butter products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 3.2% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
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 Clarified Butter
Products Containing Clarified Butter
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 279 indexed products containing Clarified Butter:
High-volume peers for Clarified Butter beside “Organic Basmati Rice”
Clarified Butter sits among other busy catalog rows (279 products, mean score 98.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Basmati Rice · Pomegranate · And Kelp Extract. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Clarified Butter page
279 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Clarified Butter are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Clarified Butter and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Clarified Butter with a peer such as “Organic Basmati Rice” 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. Read the methodology
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 Clarified Butter? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Clarified Butter, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,550 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Clarified Butter? ▼
Clarified Butter ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,550 of 247,206), appearing in 279 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Clarified Butter so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Clarified Butter appears in 279 products (#1,550 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Clarified Butter). 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.