Dl-malic Acid
Dl-malic Acid appears in 125 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
Dl-malic Acid appears in 125 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.
- 125
- catalogued products
- #2,692
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Dl-malic Acid as the trigger. Open records such as Blue Punch, Green Aplle, Cherry Mini Candy Canes, Blue Punch, Green Apple, Cherry; Brain Freeze rainbow crunch; Candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 65.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 50% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 122 of 124 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Dl-malic Acid sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,692 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,692
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 125 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 125 parsed labels, slot 10.8 on average. Dl-malic Acid 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 Dl-malic Acid
Across the 125 products on this site that list Dl-malic Acid, 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 6.2x more often with Dl-malic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dl-malic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 42 | 33.6% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 40 | 32% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 35 | 28% | 4.8% |
| Blue 2 | 25 | 20% | 0.9% |
| Yellow 6 | 16 | 12.8% | 3.4% |
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 Dl-malic Acid
Products Containing Dl-malic Acid
High-volume slice (16 of 125) for products naming Dl-malic Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aluminum Free Baking Powder”)
Top-decile company for Dl-malic Acid: 125 listings averaging 65.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aluminum Free Baking Powder · Annatto Extracts · Apple Concentrate.
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.
Next steps from the Dl-malic Acid page
Start from Dl-malic Acid's 125 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Dl-malic Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Dl-malic Acid next to “Annatto Extracts” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Dl-malic Acid — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Dl-malic Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Dl-malic Acid is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dl-malic Acid? ▼
Dl-malic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,692 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dl-malic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dl-malic Acid appears in 125 products (#2,692 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dl-malic Acid). 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.