Cultured Cream

Cultured Cream appears in 1,225 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 Cream appears in 1,225 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.

1,225
catalogued products
#588
usage rank of 247,206
309
named brands represented
47%
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: 421 of 1225 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4% Large Curd Cottage Cheese; A&G, Veggie Sticks, Sriracha Sour Cream; Abobo chicken enchiladas to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cultured Cream itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

421 of 1,225 linked records have some flagged component

All 1206 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.

High-volume listing for Cultured Cream - usage rank #588

Usage rank
#588
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
47%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,225 products listing it (mean slot 16.5). Cultured Cream usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Cultured Cream

Across the 1,225 products on this site that list Cultured Cream, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.3x more often with Cultured Cream than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +10.3ppCarrageenan+10.3ppYellow 5: +6.7ppYellow 5+6.7ppYellow 6: +7ppYellow 6+7ppCaramel Coloring: +0.3ppCaramel Coloring+0.3ppRed 40: +0.1ppRed 40+0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cultured Cream products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
10.3pp
Yellow 5
6.7pp
Yellow 6
7pp
Caramel Coloring
0.3pp
Red 40
0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cultured Cream products Share of all products
Carrageenan 181 14.8% 4.5%
Yellow 5 141 11.5% 4.8%
Yellow 6 127 10.4% 3.4%
Caramel Coloring 74 6% 5.7%
Red 40 67 5.5% 5.4%

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 Cream

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cultured Cream
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Cultured Cream vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Cultured Cream: 1,225 products, mean screening score 89.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chickpeas; Barley; Whole Grain Wheat Flour. 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 Cream record

1,225 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cultured Cream are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Cultured Cream before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Cultured Cream 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 Cultured Cream. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cultured Cream?

Cultured Cream ranks in the top decile by product count (#588 of 247,206), appearing in 1,225 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cultured Cream so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cultured Cream appears in 1,225 products (#588 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cultured Cream). 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.