Dehydroacetic Acid
Dehydroacetic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 9 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Dehydroacetic Acid appears in 9 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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 Dehydroacetic Acid - usage rank #16,390
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Mean relative depth 82% across 9 parsed labels, slot 34.4 on average. Dehydroacetic Acid tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 9 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Juniper Sage Body Wash; Mighty Curls; RAW SUGAR simply hand wash to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Dehydroacetic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Hair-conditioner supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 9 linked records have some flagged component
All 7 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 9 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 Dehydroacetic Acid
Products Containing Dehydroacetic Acid
A sample of 9 high-volume listings among the 9 indexed products containing Dehydroacetic Acid:
Dehydroacetic Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Dehydroacetic Acid: 9 products, mean screening score 93.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Dehydroacetic Acid record
Use the 9-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Dehydroacetic Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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 Dehydroacetic Acid
Does Dehydroacetic Acid carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Dehydroacetic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" 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 Dehydroacetic Acid? ▼
Dehydroacetic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Hair-conditioner. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Dehydroacetic Acid do in food? ▼
Dehydroacetic Acid is recorded as a antimicrobial agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dehydroacetic Acid). 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.