L-alanine
L-alanine carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 48 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
L-alanine appears in 48 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 48
- catalogued products
- #5,109
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- 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.
L-alanine sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,109 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,109
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 48 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 48 products listing it (mean slot 10.5). L-alanine 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: L-alanine spans 16 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Acuts Amino-charged Energy; Bcaa Energy; Dark Matter when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
16 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 48 of 48 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.
What else is usually in the same product as L-alanine
Across the 48 products on this site that list L-alanine, 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 4.6x more often with L-alanine than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of L-alanine products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 6 | 12.5% | 2.7% |
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.
Function
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 L-alanine
Products Containing L-alanine
High-volume slice (16 of 48) for products naming L-alanine:
High-volume peers for L-alanine
Top-decile company for L-alanine: 48 listings averaging 96.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this L-alanine record
Start from L-alanine's 48 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for L-alanine and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
L-alanine — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about L-alanine? ▼
L-alanine has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 18.8% 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 L-alanine? ▼
L-alanine ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,109 of 247,206), appearing in 48 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does L-alanine do in food? ▼
L-alanine is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (L-alanine). 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.