Food Grade
Food Grade appears in 33 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
Food Grade appears in 33 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.
- 33
- catalogued products
- #6,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
81.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Food Grade as the trigger. Open records such as Aloe vera drink; Aloe Vera Drink; Aloe Vera Drink and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 51.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 62% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
81.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 31 of 31 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Food Grade: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,578 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 168 others that also appear in exactly 33 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 33 parsed labels, slot 10.7 on average. Food Grade 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 Food Grade
Across the 33 products on this site that list Food Grade, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 30.3x more often with Food Grade than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Food Grade products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 21 | 63.6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 15 | 45.5% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 12 | 36.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 12 | 36.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 11 | 33.3% | 3.4% |
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 Food Grade
Products Containing Food Grade
High-volume slice (16 of 33) for products naming Food Grade:
High-volume peers for Food Grade
Food Grade sits among other busy catalog rows (33 products, mean score 51.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Food Grade evidence
Start from Food Grade's 33 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Food Grade and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Food Grade
How should I read safety signals when Food Grade sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
81.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Food Grade is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Food Grade? ▼
Food Grade ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,578 of 247,206), appearing in 33 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Food Grade so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Food Grade appears in 33 products (#6,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Food Grade). 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.