Dry Yeast
Dry Yeast appears in 174 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 Yeast appears in 174 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.
- 174
- catalogued products
- #2,125
- usage rank of 247,206
- 47
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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: 84 of 174 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Artisan Sub Meatball; Bagels; Bastoncini Whole Wheat to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dry Yeast 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.
84 of 174 linked records have some flagged component
All 170 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.
High-volume listing for Dry Yeast - usage rank #2,125
- Usage rank
- #2,125
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 174 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Averaged label depth puts Dry Yeast in the lower half of the list (66% of list length, mean slot 25.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Dry Yeast
Across the 174 products on this site that list Dry Yeast, 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. TBHQ shows up about 66.6x more often with Dry Yeast than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dry Yeast products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBHQ | 58 | 33.3% | 0.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 36 | 20.7% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 33 | 19% | 1.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 12.6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 12.1% | 5.7% |
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 Yeast
Products Containing Dry Yeast
16 busy labels from the 174 indexed products that list Dry Yeast:
Dry Yeast vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Dry Yeast: 174 listings averaging 79.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate · Chamomile · Organic Chicory.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Dry Yeast evidence
Start from Dry Yeast's 174 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Dry Yeast and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Dry Yeast with a peer such as “Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Dry Yeast
Does Dry Yeast 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 Yeast. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dry Yeast? ▼
Dry Yeast ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,125 of 247,206), appearing in 174 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dry Yeast so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dry Yeast appears in 174 products (#2,125 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dry Yeast). 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.