Dairy Whey
Dairy Whey appears in 229 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 Whey appears in 229 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.
- 229
- catalogued products
- #1,792
- usage rank of 247,206
- 57
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 98 of 229 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American Style Pasta Salad with Chicken; Apple Pie; Apple Pie to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dairy Whey itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
98 of 229 linked records have some flagged component
All 229 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Dairy Whey: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,792 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,792
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 229 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Mean relative depth 52% across 229 parsed labels, slot 17.0 on average. Dairy Whey tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Dairy Whey
Across the 229 products on this site that list Dairy Whey, 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. Yellow 6 shows up about 6x more often with Dairy Whey than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dairy Whey products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 47 | 20.5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 46 | 20.1% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 14% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 25 | 10.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 5.7% | 5.4% |
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 Whey
Products Containing Dairy Whey
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 229 indexed products containing Dairy Whey:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Lactic Acid Powder”)
Dairy Whey sits among other busy catalog rows (229 products, mean score 83.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Lactic Acid Powder”, “Peppermint Flavor”, “Sodium Aluminosilicate”. 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 Whey record
Use the 229-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 Whey to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Dairy Whey — common follow-ups
Does Dairy Whey carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Dairy Whey. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dairy Whey? ▼
Dairy Whey ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,792 of 247,206), appearing in 229 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dairy Whey so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dairy Whey appears in 229 products (#1,792 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dairy Whey). 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.