Colloidal Silicon Dioxide
Colloidal Silicon Dioxide appears in 25 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
Colloidal Silicon Dioxide appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
72% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Colloidal Silicon Dioxide as the trigger. Open records such as Allegra; allergy medications; Ibuprofen and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 24% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 23 of 23 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.
Colloidal Silicon Dioxide: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,001 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Mean relative depth 24% across 25 parsed labels, slot 4.7 on average. Colloidal Silicon Dioxide tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
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 Colloidal Silicon Dioxide
Products Containing Colloidal Silicon Dioxide
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 25 indexed products containing Colloidal Silicon Dioxide:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Colloidal Silicon Dioxide sits among other busy catalog rows (25 products, mean score 87.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Colloidal Silicon Dioxide evidence
25 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Colloidal Silicon Dioxide are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Colloidal Silicon Dioxide and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Colloidal Silicon Dioxide sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Colloidal Silicon Dioxide is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Colloidal Silicon Dioxide? ▼
Colloidal Silicon Dioxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Non food products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Colloidal Silicon Dioxide so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Colloidal Silicon Dioxide appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colloidal Silicon Dioxide). 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.