Dry
Dry appears in 57 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
Dry appears in 57 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.
- 57
- catalogued products
- #4,553
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 17 of 57 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Au Gratin Sliced Potatoes; Bean Puffs (sweet chili); Black Bean & Corn Salsa to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dry itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
17 of 57 linked records have some flagged component
All 55 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.
Dry: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,553 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,553
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 57 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Dry in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 10.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Dry
Across the 57 products on this site that list Dry, 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. BHA shows up about 25x more often with Dry than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dry products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHA | 10 | 17.5% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 10.5% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 8.8% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 8.8% | 3.4% |
| Red 3 | 5 | 8.8% | 1.1% |
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 Dry
Products Containing Dry
High-volume slice (16 of 57) for products naming Dry:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”)
Dry sits among other busy catalog rows (57 products, mean score 87.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”, “Ancho Chile”, “Apricot Kernels”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Dry page
57 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dry are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Dry and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Dry with a peer such as “Natural & Artificial Flavoring” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Dry — common follow-ups
Does Dry 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 Dry. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dry? ▼
Dry ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,553 of 247,206), appearing in 57 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 Dry so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dry appears in 57 products (#4,553 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dry). 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.