Dairy-free
Dairy-free appears in 57 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-free appears in 57 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.
- 57
- catalogued products
- #4,553
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Dairy-free - usage rank #4,553
- Usage rank
- #4,553
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 57 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Averaged label depth puts Dairy-free near the top of the captured list (20% of list length, mean slot 4.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dairy-free spans 5 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with cheese; Cream Cheese; Dairy Free Mozzarella Cheese Alternative when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 39 of 56 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-free
Across the 57 products on this site that list Dairy-free, 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 2.3x more often with Dairy-free than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dairy-free products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 10.5% | 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-free
Products Containing Dairy-free
16 busy labels from the 57 indexed products that list Dairy-free:
Dairy-free vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Dairy-free: 57 listings averaging 99/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural & Artificial Flavoring · Ancho Chile · Apricot Kernels.
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-free record
57 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dairy-free are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Dairy-free before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Dairy-free next to “Ancho Chile” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dairy-free? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dairy-free, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,553 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dairy-free? ▼
Dairy-free ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,553 of 247,206), appearing in 57 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dairy-free so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dairy-free appears in 57 products (#4,553 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dairy-free). 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.