D-xylose
D-xylose carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 14 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
D-xylose appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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-xylose: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,996 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Averaged label depth puts D-xylose in the lower half of the list (67% of list length, mean slot 28.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 14 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chapagetti Jjajang Noddles; Crispy Tteokbokki (Tomato Flavor); Home-Style Breaded Oyster, Home-Style to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to D-xylose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3 of 14 linked records have some flagged component
All 14 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 14 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-xylose
Products Containing D-xylose
14 busy labels from the 14 indexed products that list D-xylose:
High-volume peers for D-xylose
High-volume peers for D-xylose: 14 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the D-xylose evidence
Use the 14-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing D-xylose before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- 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 D-xylose 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-xylose 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-xylose? ▼
D-xylose ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does D-xylose do in food? ▼
D-xylose is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutritive sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (D-xylose). 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.