Dairy
Dairy appears in 103 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
Dairy appears in 103 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.
- 103
- catalogued products
- #3,066
- usage rank of 247,206
- 59
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
Dairy sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,066 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,066
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 103 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Averaged label depth puts Dairy in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 19.1). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dairy spans 59 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 123 Gluten Free: Sweet Goodness Sugat 'n spice Pam Pars baking mix; 30g protein shake; Artisan Virginia Peanuts, Jalapeno when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
59 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 87 of 96 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 Dairy
Across the 103 products on this site that list Dairy, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dairy products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 7 | 6.8% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 5.8% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 4.9% | 3.4% |
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 Dairy
Products Containing Dairy
High-volume slice (16 of 103) for products naming Dairy:
Dairy vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Dairy sits among other busy catalog rows (103 products, mean score 93.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Acai Puree · Aloe Vera Juice · Bamboo Shoots. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Dairy record
Use the 103-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dairy to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Dairy with a peer such as “Acai Puree” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Dairy
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dairy? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dairy, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,066 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dairy? ▼
Dairy ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,066 of 247,206), appearing in 103 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dairy so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dairy appears in 103 products (#3,066 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dairy). 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.