Dietary Fiber

Dietary Fiber appears in 311 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

Dietary Fiber appears in 311 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.

311
catalogued products
#1,456
usage rank of 247,206
132
named brands represented
42%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 141 of 311 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Natural Granola; 100% Natural Granola; 100% Natural Granola With Almonds & Pecans to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dietary Fiber itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

141 of 311 linked records have some flagged component

All 273 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.

High-volume listing for Dietary Fiber - usage rank #1,456

Usage rank
#1,456
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 311 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
42%
Mean relative depth 42% across 311 parsed labels, slot 10.5 on average. Dietary Fiber tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What else is usually in the same product as Dietary Fiber

Across the 311 products on this site that list Dietary Fiber, 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.

Trans Fat: +27ppTrans Fat+27ppSucralose: +6.9ppSucralose+6.9ppCarrageenan: +4.5ppCarrageenan+4.5ppCaramel Coloring: +0.1ppCaramel Coloring+0.1ppRed 40: -0.6ppRed 40-0.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Dietary Fiber products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Trans Fat
27pp
Sucralose
6.9pp
Carrageenan
4.5pp
Caramel Coloring
0.1pp
Red 40
-0.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Dietary Fiber products Share of all products
Trans Fat 84 27% 0%
Sucralose 30 9.6% 2.7%
Carrageenan 28 9% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 18 5.8% 5.7%
Red 40 15 4.8% 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 Dietary Fiber

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 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dietary Fiber
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.

High-volume peers for Dietary Fiber beside “Dill Weed”

Dietary Fiber sits among other busy catalog rows (311 products, mean score 86.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Dill Weed · Egg Albumen · Organic Raw Kombucha. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Dietary Fiber record

311 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dietary Fiber are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Dietary Fiber to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Dietary Fiber

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Dietary Fiber?

Dietary Fiber ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,456 of 247,206), appearing in 311 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dietary Fiber so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dietary Fiber appears in 311 products (#1,456 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dietary Fiber). 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.