Ferrous Lactate
Ferrous Lactate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 289 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ferrous Lactate appears in 289 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 289
- catalogued products
- #1,517
- usage rank of 247,206
- 57
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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.
Ferrous Lactate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,517 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,517
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 289 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 289 products listing it (mean slot 4.2). Ferrous Lactate usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ferrous Lactate spans 57 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% durum wheat semolina; 100% durum wheat semolina enriched macaroni product; 365 everyday value, enriched extra wide egg noodles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
57 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 255 of 274 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Ferrous Lactate
Products Containing Ferrous Lactate
High-volume slice (16 of 289) for products naming Ferrous Lactate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Annatto For Color”)
Ferrous Lactate sits among other busy catalog rows (289 products, mean score 99.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Annatto For Color; Bromelain; Natural Fragrance. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Ferrous Lactate page
Use the 289-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ferrous Lactate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Ferrous Lactate with a peer such as “Annatto For Color” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Ferrous Lactate — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Ferrous Lactate? ▼
Ferrous Lactate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 1.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ferrous Lactate? ▼
Ferrous Lactate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,517 of 247,206), appearing in 289 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ferrous Lactate do in food? ▼
Ferrous Lactate is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferrous Lactate). 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.