Leche

Leche appears in 96 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

Leche appears in 96 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.

96
catalogued products
#3,214
usage rank of 247,206
60
named brands represented
61%
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 Leche - usage rank #3,214

Usage rank
#3,214
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 96 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
61%
Averaged label depth puts Leche in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 21.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 13.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Leche spans 60 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 10 Grain Pancake & Waffle Mix; Alfajores 70% Cacao Puro; Alfajores Chocolate Blanco when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

60 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 77 of 81 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 Leche

Across the 96 products on this site that list Leche, 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.

Additive Shared products Share of Leche products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 7 7.3% 5.7%
Yellow 6 5 5.2% 3.4%

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 Leche

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 16 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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Leche
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.

Leche vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Leche sits among other busy catalog rows (96 products, mean score 95.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate”, “Annatto Coloring”, “Cake”. 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.

Using the Leche evidence

96 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Leche are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Leche before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Leche with a peer such as “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Leche?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Leche, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,214 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Leche?

Leche ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,214 of 247,206), appearing in 96 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Leche so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Leche appears in 96 products (#3,214 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leche). 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.