Modified Food
Modified Food appears in 35 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
Modified Food appears in 35 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.
- 35
- catalogued products
- #6,340
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 16 of 35 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Beef Patties; Blended Lowfat Yogurt; California Medley with Cheese Sauce broccoli, carrots & cauliflower to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Modified Food itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
16 of 35 linked records have some flagged component
All 34 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
Modified Food: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,340 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,340
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 35 parsed labels, slot 14.3 on average. Modified Food tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Modified Food
Across the 35 products on this site that list Modified Food, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3x more often with Modified Food than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Modified Food products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 17.1% | 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 Modified Food
Products Containing Modified Food
16 busy labels from the 35 indexed products that list Modified Food:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Modified Food sits among other busy catalog rows (35 products, mean score 92.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Modified Food page
Start from Modified Food's 35 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Modified Food and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Modified Food 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 Modified Food. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Modified Food? ▼
Modified Food ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Modified Food so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Modified Food appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Modified Food). 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.