Dimethyl Silicone
Dimethyl Silicone appears in 165 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
Dimethyl Silicone appears in 165 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.
- 165
- catalogued products
- #2,208
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
Dimethyl Silicone: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,208 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,208
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 165 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 165 products listing it (mean slot 4.3). Dimethyl Silicone 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dimethyl Silicone spans 48 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 100% Natural Non-Stick Canola Cooking Spray Oil; Ahold cooking spray vegetable oil when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
48 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 162 of 163 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 Dimethyl Silicone
Across the 165 products on this site that list Dimethyl Silicone, 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. TBHQ shows up about 8.4x more often with Dimethyl Silicone than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dimethyl Silicone products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBHQ | 7 | 4.2% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 3.6% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 3% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 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.
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 Dimethyl Silicone
Products Containing Dimethyl Silicone
High-volume slice (16 of 165) for products naming Dimethyl Silicone:
High-volume peers for Dimethyl Silicone beside “Com”
Dimethyl Silicone sits among other busy catalog rows (165 products, mean score 96.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Com · Organic Grade A Reduced Fat Milk · Ground White Corn. 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.
Using the Dimethyl Silicone evidence
Use the 165-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Dimethyl Silicone before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Dimethyl Silicone with a peer such as “Com” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Dimethyl Silicone — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dimethyl Silicone? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dimethyl Silicone, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,208 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dimethyl Silicone? ▼
Dimethyl Silicone ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,208 of 247,206), appearing in 165 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 Dimethyl Silicone so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dimethyl Silicone appears in 165 products (#2,208 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dimethyl Silicone). 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.