Dioxide

Dioxide appears in 31 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

Dioxide appears in 31 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.

31
catalogued products
#6,896
usage rank of 247,206
22
named brands represented
68%
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: 14 of 31 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Active Collagen+; Brisket Burnt Ends Beef & Pork Smoked Sausage; Chipotle Guava to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dioxide itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

14 of 31 linked records have some flagged component

All 30 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.

Dioxide sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,896 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,896
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
68%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 31 products listing it (mean slot 18.8). Dioxide 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Dioxide

Across the 31 products on this site that list Dioxide, 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. Red 40 shows up about 4.2x more often with Dioxide than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Dioxide products Share of all products
Red 40 7 22.6% 5.4%
Yellow 5 6 19.4% 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 Dioxide

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 0246810 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dioxide
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 Dioxide

Dioxide sits among other busy catalog rows (31 products, mean score 79/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Dioxide record

Start from Dioxide's 31 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Dioxide before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s 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.

Dioxide — common follow-ups

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Dioxide?

Dioxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dioxide so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dioxide appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dioxide). 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.