Dha

Dha appears in 52 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

Dha appears in 52 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.

52
catalogued products
#4,845
usage rank of 247,206
30
named brands represented
58%
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: 11 of 52 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Arctic Cod liver oil; Cod Liver Oil; Cod Liver Oil to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Dha itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

11 of 52 linked records have some flagged component

All 47 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.

High-volume listing for Dha - usage rank #4,845

Usage rank
#4,845
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 58 others that also appear in exactly 52 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
58%
Mean relative depth 58% across 52 parsed labels, slot 22.9 on average. Dha tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Dha

Across the 52 products on this site that list Dha, 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 4.3x more often with Dha than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Dha products Share of all products
Carrageenan 10 19.2% 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 Dha

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dha
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ab Vitamin”)

Dha sits among other busy catalog rows (52 products, mean score 96.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Ab Vitamin”, “Aluminum Sodium Sulfate”, “Animal And Vegetable Shortening”. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Dha record

Use the 52-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Dha and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Dha next to “Aluminum Sodium Sulfate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Dha — common follow-ups

Does Dha 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 Dha. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dha?

Dha ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,845 of 247,206), appearing in 52 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dha so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dha appears in 52 products (#4,845 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dha). 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.