Cultured
Cultured appears in 184 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
Cultured appears in 184 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.
- 184
- catalogued products
- #2,049
- usage rank of 247,206
- 96
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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 Cultured - usage rank #2,049
- Usage rank
- #2,049
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 185 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Mean relative depth 31% across 185 parsed labels, slot 9.2 on average. Cultured tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cultured spans 96 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 1 % Lowfat Yogurt Coconut; 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese; 100% Natural Sour Cream when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
96 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 149 of 173 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 Cultured
Across the 184 products on this site that list Cultured, 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 1.8x more often with Cultured than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cultured products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 4.3% | 2.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 7 | 3.8% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 7 | 3.8% | 2.7% |
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 Cultured
Products Containing Cultured
16 busy labels from the 184 indexed products that list Cultured:
Cultured vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Cultured: 184 products, mean screening score 96.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chromium; Organic Fair Trade Cane Sugar; Glycerol Monostearate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Cultured record
Start from Cultured's 184 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cultured and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Cultured next to “Organic Fair Trade Cane Sugar” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cultured? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cultured, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,049 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cultured? ▼
Cultured ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,049 of 247,206), appearing in 184 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cultured so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cultured appears in 184 products (#2,049 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cultured). 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.