D-ribose
D-ribose carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 29 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
D-ribose appears in 29 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
D-ribose sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,222 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Mean relative depth 43% across 29 parsed labels, slot 10.0 on average. D-ribose tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 12 of 29 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Amp Energy Boost Grape 16 Fluid Ounce Can; Bcaa Stim Free; Colon Cleanse to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to D-ribose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12 of 29 linked records have some flagged component
All 28 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 D-ribose
Products Containing D-ribose
16 busy labels from the 29 indexed products that list D-ribose:
High-volume peers for D-ribose
High-volume peers for D-ribose: 29 products, mean screening score 88.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the D-ribose evidence
Start from D-ribose's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list D-ribose to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
D-ribose — common follow-ups
Does D-ribose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. D-ribose itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Listed" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with D-ribose? ▼
D-ribose ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does D-ribose do in food? ▼
D-ribose is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (D-ribose). 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.