Dough
Dough appears in 176 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
Dough appears in 176 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.
- 176
- catalogued products
- #2,113
- usage rank of 247,206
- 56
- named brands represented
- 14%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 50 of 176 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 3 cheeses and tomato sauce seasoned with extra virgin olive oil pizza, three cheese; Apple Filled Belgian Waffles to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dough itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
50 of 176 linked records have some flagged component
All 172 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.
Dough sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,113 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,113
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 176 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 14%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 176 products listing it (mean slot 5.1). Dough usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Dough
Across the 176 products on this site that list Dough, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5x more often with Dough than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dough products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 11.9% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 10.2% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 16 | 9.1% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 13 | 7.4% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 5.7% | 4.5% |
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 Dough
Products Containing Dough
16 busy labels from the 176 indexed products that list Dough:
Dough vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Dough: 176 products, mean screening score 91.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Black Pepper Powder; Or Less Of Leavening; Spices Including Paprika. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Dough page
Use the 176-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Dough to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Dough with a peer such as “Black Pepper Powder” 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Dough 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 Dough. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dough? ▼
Dough ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,113 of 247,206), appearing in 176 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dough so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dough appears in 176 products (#2,113 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dough). 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.