Dairy Cultures
Dairy Cultures appears in 83 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 Cultures appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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 Cultures: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,577 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 83 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Dairy Cultures usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dairy Cultures spans 32 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Amber Valley Stilton; Apple, Banana, Peach & Yogurt; Apple, peach, yogurt, banana when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
32 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 40 of 70 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 Cultures
Across the 83 products on this site that list Dairy Cultures, 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 2.4x more often with Dairy Cultures than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dairy Cultures products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 9 | 10.8% | 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 Dairy Cultures
Products Containing Dairy Cultures
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 83 indexed products containing Dairy Cultures:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”)
Dairy Cultures sits among other busy catalog rows (83 products, mean score 95.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 · Blue 1 & 2 · Brominated Soybean Oil. 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 Cultures record
Use the 83-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Dairy Cultures before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Dairy Cultures with a peer such as “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dairy Cultures? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dairy Cultures, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,577 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dairy Cultures? ▼
Dairy Cultures ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dairy Cultures so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dairy Cultures appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dairy Cultures). 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.