Enzyme
Enzyme appears in 3,819 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
Enzyme appears in 3,819 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.
- 3,819
- catalogued products
- #261
- usage rank of 247,206
- 811
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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: 1484 of 3819 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milkfat Fat Free Small Curd Cottage Cheese; 0% milkfat fat free small curd cottage cheese; 1% Milkfat Cottage Cheese small curd lowfat to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Enzyme 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.
1484 of 3,819 linked records have some flagged component
All 3737 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.
Enzyme: top-decile catalog footprint (#261 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #261
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Enzyme in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 17.9). 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 Enzyme
Across the 3,819 products on this site that list Enzyme, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.4x more often with Enzyme than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Enzyme products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 413 | 10.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 383 | 10% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 359 | 9.4% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 245 | 6.4% | 0.7% |
| Red 40 | 234 | 6.1% | 5.4% |
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 Enzyme
Products Containing Enzyme
High-volume slice (16 of 3,819) for products naming Enzyme:
High-volume peers for Enzyme beside “Milk Fat”
Enzyme sits among other busy catalog rows (3,819 products, mean score 89.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Milk Fat; Blueberries; Mixed Tocopherols. 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 Enzyme page
3,819 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Enzyme are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Enzyme and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Enzyme with a peer such as “Milk Fat” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Enzyme 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 Enzyme. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Enzyme? ▼
Enzyme ranks in the top decile by product count (#261 of 247,206), appearing in 3,819 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Enzyme so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Enzyme appears in 3,819 products (#261 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Enzyme). 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.