Lactic Acid Starter Culture
Lactic Acid Starter Culture appears in 3,098 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
Lactic Acid Starter Culture appears in 3,098 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.
- 3,098
- catalogued products
- #297
- usage rank of 247,206
- 564
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
75% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Lactic Acid Starter Culture as the trigger. Open records such as 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 3 CHEESE PASTA with EGGPLANT and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 72.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 70% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
75% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2905 of 3063 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.
Lactic Acid Starter Culture: top-decile catalog footprint (#297 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #297
- 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
- 70%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,098 products listing it (mean slot 22.7). Lactic Acid Starter Culture 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.
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 Lactic Acid Starter Culture
Across the 3,098 products on this site that list Lactic Acid Starter Culture, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 28.7x more often with Lactic Acid Starter Culture than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lactic Acid Starter Culture products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 2,135 | 68.9% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 1,356 | 43.8% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 1,334 | 43.1% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 297 | 9.6% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 212 | 6.8% | 5.7% |
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.
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 Lactic Acid Starter Culture
Products Containing Lactic Acid Starter Culture
16 busy labels from the 3,098 indexed products that list Lactic Acid Starter Culture:
High-volume peers for Lactic Acid Starter Culture beside “Pineapple”
Top-decile company for Lactic Acid Starter Culture: 3,098 listings averaging 72.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Pineapple; Extractives Of Paprika; Mono & Diglycerides.
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.
Using the Lactic Acid Starter Culture evidence
Use the 3,098-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lactic Acid Starter Culture to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Lactic Acid Starter Culture next to “Extractives Of Paprika” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Lactic Acid Starter Culture
How should I read safety signals when Lactic Acid Starter Culture sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
75% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Lactic Acid Starter Culture is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lactic Acid Starter Culture? ▼
Lactic Acid Starter Culture ranks in the top decile by product count (#297 of 247,206), appearing in 3,098 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lactic Acid Starter Culture so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lactic Acid Starter Culture appears in 3,098 products (#297 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lactic Acid Starter Culture). 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.