Fat Free Milk

Fat Free Milk appears in 357 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

Fat Free Milk appears in 357 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.

357
catalogued products
#1,311
usage rank of 247,206
110
named brands represented
7%
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: 124 of 357 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milk; 1% Chocolate Lowfat Milk; 100% fat free milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Fat Free Milk itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

124 of 357 linked records have some flagged component

All 333 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 1, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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 Fat Free Milk - usage rank #1,311

Usage rank
#1,311
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 357 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
7%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 357 products listing it (mean slot 2.4). Fat Free Milk 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 Fat Free Milk

Across the 357 products on this site that list Fat Free Milk, 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 7.6x more often with Fat Free Milk than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +29.7ppCarrageenan+29.7ppSucralose: +0.9ppSucralose+0.9ppAcesulfame Potassium: +1.3ppAcesulfame Potassium+1.3ppPolysorbate 80: +0.1ppPolysorbate 80+0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Fat Free Milk products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
29.7pp
Sucralose
0.9pp
Acesulfame Potassium
1.3pp
Polysorbate 80
0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Fat Free Milk products Share of all products
Carrageenan 122 34.2% 4.5%
Sucralose 13 3.6% 2.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 11 3.1% 1.8%
Polysorbate 80 5 1.4% 1.3%

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 Fat Free Milk

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fat Free Milk
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Oleoresin Turmeric”)

Fat Free Milk sits among other busy catalog rows (357 products, mean score 96.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Oleoresin Turmeric”, “Pasteurized Eggs”, “Or Less Of Dextrose”. 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 Fat Free Milk page

Start from Fat Free Milk's 357 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Fat Free Milk before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Fat Free Milk with a peer such as “Oleoresin Turmeric” 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. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Fat Free Milk 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 Fat Free Milk. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Fat Free Milk?

Fat Free Milk ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,311 of 247,206), appearing in 357 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Fat Free Milk so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fat Free Milk appears in 357 products (#1,311 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fat Free Milk). 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.