Glutamine
Glutamine appears in 18 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
Glutamine appears in 18 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.
- 18
- catalogued products
- #10,099
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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: 7 of 18 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Complete Protein Shake Creamy Vanilla Bean; Complete Protein Shake Creamy Vanilla Bean; Complete Protein Shake Rich Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 65–100 score range to Glutamine itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
7 of 18 linked records have some flagged component
All 18 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 65–100 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.
Glutamine sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,099 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,099
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 18 products listing it (mean slot 15.3). Glutamine usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
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 Glutamine
Products Containing Glutamine
16 busy labels from the 18 indexed products that list Glutamine:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Glutamine: 18 listings averaging 92.5/100.
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 Glutamine page
Use the 18-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Glutamine and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Glutamine
Does Glutamine 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 Glutamine. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Glutamine? ▼
Glutamine ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Glutamine so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Glutamine appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Glutamine). 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.