Erythritol
Erythritol carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 2,460 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Erythritol appears in 2,460 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,460
- catalogued products
- #349
- usage rank of 247,206
- 523
- named brands represented
- 25%
- 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.
Erythritol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#349 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #349
- 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
- 25%
- Mean relative depth 25% across 2,463 parsed labels, slot 5.5 on average. Erythritol tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 619 of 2460 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0 calorie sweetener; 100% whole wheat pre-sliced slim buns; 20 cal bars vanilla cream flavors to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Erythritol itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
619 of 2,460 linked records have some flagged component
All 2460 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Erythritol
Across the 2,460 products on this site that list Erythritol, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 32.8x more often with Erythritol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Erythritol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 404 | 16.4% | 0.5% |
| Sucralose | 401 | 16.3% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 144 | 5.9% | 1.8% |
| Carrageenan | 133 | 5.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 106 | 4.3% | 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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Erythritol
Products Containing Erythritol
16 busy labels from the 2,460 indexed products that list Erythritol:
Erythritol vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Erythritol sits among other busy catalog rows (2,460 products, mean score 94.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Cocoa Mass · Wheat Bran · Cherries. 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.
Using the Erythritol evidence
Start from Erythritol's 2,460 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Erythritol to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Erythritol
Does Erythritol carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Erythritol itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Erythritol? ▼
Erythritol ranks in the top decile by product count (#349 of 247,206), appearing in 2,460 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Erythritol do in food? ▼
Erythritol is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Erythritol). 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.