Cytidine 5'-monophosphate

Cytidine 5'-monophosphate appears in 40 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

Cytidine 5'-monophosphate appears in 40 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.

40
catalogued products
#5,797
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
88%
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 Cytidine 5'-monophosphate - usage rank #5,797

Usage rank
#5,797
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
88%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 40 products listing it (mean slot 46.5). Cytidine 5'-monophosphate usually falls near the end of the captured 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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cytidine 5'-monophosphate spans 10 named brands and is led by the Baby foods group. Start with 360 Total Care Infant Formula; Enfacare Infant formula; EnfaCare Infant Formula 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.

10 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 40 of 40 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 Cytidine 5'-monophosphate

Across the 40 products on this site that list Cytidine 5'-monophosphate, 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 Cytidine 5'-monophosphate than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Cytidine 5'-monophosphate products Share of all products
Carrageenan 6 15% 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 Cytidine 5'-monophosphate

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 Cytidine 5'-monophosphate
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Cytidine 5'-monophosphate: 40 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.

What to do with this Cytidine 5'-monophosphate record

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

Questions readers ask about Cytidine 5'-monophosphate

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cytidine 5'-monophosphate?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cytidine 5'-monophosphate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,797 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cytidine 5'-monophosphate?

Cytidine 5'-monophosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Baby foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cytidine 5'-monophosphate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cytidine 5'-monophosphate appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cytidine 5'-monophosphate). 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.