Dl-alanine
Dl-alanine carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 25 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Dl-alanine appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
Dl-alanine: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,001 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 25 products listing it (mean slot 22.7). Dl-alanine 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.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 8 of 25 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Azuma Foods, Hokki Gai Salad; Cooking Wine; Cream Cheese Roll - Imitation Crab 10pc to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Dl-alanine itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
8 of 25 linked records have some flagged component
All 25 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Dl-alanine
Products Containing Dl-alanine
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 25 indexed products containing Dl-alanine:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Dl-alanine: 25 products, mean screening score 89/100. 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.
Next steps from the Dl-alanine page
25 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dl-alanine are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Dl-alanine before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Dl-alanine
Does Dl-alanine carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Dl-alanine 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 Dl-alanine? ▼
Dl-alanine ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Dl-alanine do in food? ▼
Dl-alanine is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dl-alanine). 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.