Condensed Whey
Condensed Whey appears in 43 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
Condensed Whey appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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 Condensed Whey - usage rank #5,507
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 43 parsed labels, slot 8.6 on average. Condensed Whey tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Condensed Whey spans 9 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with A whole hazelnut in chewy caramel with chocolate hazelnut filling and chocolate; An assortment of rich, creamy caramel candies; Baking Caramels when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
9 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 43 of 43 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.
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 Condensed Whey
Products Containing Condensed Whey
16 busy labels from the 43 indexed products that list Condensed Whey:
High-volume peers for Condensed Whey
Top-decile company for Condensed Whey: 43 listings averaging 99.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Condensed Whey evidence
43 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Condensed Whey are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Condensed Whey before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Condensed Whey
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Condensed Whey? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Condensed Whey, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,507 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Condensed Whey? ▼
Condensed Whey ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Condensed Whey so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Condensed Whey appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Condensed Whey). 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.