Crust
Crust appears in 1,132 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
Crust appears in 1,132 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.
- 1,132
- catalogued products
- #610
- usage rank of 247,206
- 187
- named brands represented
- 6%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 535 of 1132 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 Cheese Blend Rising Crust Pizza; 5 cheese bread; 5 Cheese Breadsticks to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Crust itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
535 of 1,132 linked records have some flagged component
All 1114 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Crust: top-decile catalog footprint (#610 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #610
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 6%
- Mean relative depth 6% across 1,132 parsed labels, slot 3.2 on average. Crust 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Crust
Across the 1,132 products on this site that list Crust, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 14.8x more often with Crust than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Crust products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 402 | 35.5% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 356 | 31.4% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 340 | 30% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 113 | 10% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 58 | 5.1% | 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 Crust
Products Containing Crust
16 busy labels from the 1,132 indexed products that list Crust:
Crust vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Crust sits among other busy catalog rows (1,132 products, mean score 83.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Balsamic Vinegar; Milk Powder; White Chocolate. 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.
Using the Crust evidence
1,132 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Crust are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Crust to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Crust next to “Milk Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Crust — common follow-ups
Does Crust carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Crust. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Crust? ▼
Crust ranks in the top decile by product count (#610 of 247,206), appearing in 1,132 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Crust so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crust appears in 1,132 products (#610 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crust). 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.