L-proline

L-proline carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 11 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

L-proline appears in 11 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.

11
catalogued products
#14,190
usage rank of 247,206
9
named brands represented
51%
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-proline: top-decile catalog footprint (#14,190 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#14,190
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Mean relative depth 51% across 11 parsed labels, slot 20.6 on average. L-proline 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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 11 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare EleCare Infant Formula; Essential Skin Food; Gummy choco to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to L-proline itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

4 of 11 linked records have some flagged component

All 11 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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.

Function

FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 11 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-proline

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 11 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing L-proline EleCare Infant FormulaEssential Skin FoodGummy chocoHair, Skin, & NailsHYDROPRO Advanced Hydrolyzed-Isolate Whey Protein FormulaMega MucosaMixed Berry Native Hydrate Electrolyte & Amino Acid Drink MixSobe, elixir, powder fruit punchWhey Protein Tres LechesGreens & ProbioticsVanilla amino acid-based nutrition medical food powder, vanilla
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

L-proline vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for L-proline: 11 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the L-proline evidence

Use the 11-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing L-proline before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. 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.

L-proline — common follow-ups

Does L-proline carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. L-proline itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" 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 L-proline?

L-proline ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does L-proline do in food?

L-proline is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (L-proline). 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.