Inulin
Inulin carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 2,980 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Inulin appears in 2,980 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,980
- catalogued products
- #307
- usage rank of 247,206
- 700
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Inulin - usage rank #307
- Usage rank
- #307
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,987 products listing it (mean slot 11.9). Inulin 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 683 of 2980 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 to 1 Organic All-Purpose Flour; 100% fruit juice smoothie boosts; 100% Pure Whey With Grass Fed Whey Isolates Vanilla Cream Slice Flavour to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Inulin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
683 of 2,980 linked records have some flagged component
All 2966 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Inulin
Across the 2,980 products on this site that list Inulin, 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.7x more often with Inulin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Inulin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 375 | 12.6% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 305 | 10.2% | 4.5% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 205 | 6.9% | 1.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 130 | 4.4% | 5.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 121 | 4.1% | 0.5% |
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.
Function
Other
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 Inulin
Products Containing Inulin
High-volume slice (16 of 2,980) for products naming Inulin:
Inulin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Inulin sits among other busy catalog rows (2,980 products, mean score 93.7/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Walnuts; Palm Kernel; Oat fiber. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Inulin record
2,980 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Inulin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Inulin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Inulin
Does Inulin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Inulin itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Inulin? ▼
Inulin ranks in the top decile by product count (#307 of 247,206), appearing in 2,980 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Inulin do in food? ▼
Inulin is recorded as a other in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Inulin). 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.