Lactitol
Lactitol carries a source-backed screening score of 4/5 and appears in 67 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.”
Source-backed answer
Lactitol appears in 67 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.” 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.
- 67
- catalogued products
- #4,097
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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 Lactitol - usage rank #4,097
- Usage rank
- #4,097
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Mean relative depth 30% across 67 parsed labels, slot 10.1 on average. Lactitol tends to sit in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
85.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Lactitol as the trigger. Open records such as Abbott, Glucerna, Nutrition Bars, Peanut Chocolate Chip, Peanut Chocolate Chip; Artesania, Toasted Almond Egg Nought; Cavalier, Dark Belgian Chocolatier and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 30% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
85.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 67 of 67 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Lactitol
Across the 67 products on this site that list Lactitol, 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 27.6x more often with Lactitol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lactitol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 50 | 74.6% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 38 | 56.7% | 1.8% |
| Carrageenan | 30 | 44.8% | 4.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 12 | 17.9% | 2.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 16.4% | 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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Lactitol
Products Containing Lactitol
High-volume slice (16 of 67) for products naming Lactitol:
High-volume peers for Lactitol beside “Acesulfame”
Top-decile company for Lactitol: 67 listings averaging 67/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Acesulfame · Added To Promote Color Retention · Brandy.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Lactitol record
67 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lactitol are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lactitol to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Lactitol next to “Added To Promote Color Retention” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Lactitol — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Lactitol sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
85.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Lactitol is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Lactitol scores 4/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Cut Back". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lactitol? ▼
Lactitol ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Lactitol serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Lactitol is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lactitol). 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.