Datem
Datem carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 4,314 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Datem appears in 4,314 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 4,314
- catalogued products
- #240
- usage rank of 247,206
- 602
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
Datem sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#240 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #240
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,314 products listing it (mean slot 24.8). Datem 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1645 of 4314 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% light whole wheat; 100% whole grain bread; 100% Whole Wheat to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Datem itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1645 of 4,314 linked records have some flagged component
All 4314 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Datem
Across the 4,314 products on this site that list Datem, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 91.5x more often with Datem than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Datem products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 791 | 18.3% | 0.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 512 | 11.9% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 466 | 10.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 341 | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 317 | 7.3% | 4.8% |
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.
Function
Emulsifier
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 Datem
Products Containing Datem
High-volume slice (16 of 4,314) for products naming Datem:
Datem vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Datem: 4,314 products, mean screening score 87.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Spinach”, “Dipotassium Phosphate”, “Egg”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Datem evidence
4,314 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Datem are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Datem to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Datem carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Datem itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating 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 Datem? ▼
Datem ranks in the top decile by product count (#240 of 247,206), appearing in 4,314 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Datem do in food? ▼
Datem is recorded as a emulsifier in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Datem). 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.