Or Less Of
Or Less Of appears in 89 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
Or Less Of appears in 89 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.
- 89
- catalogued products
- #3,412
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 33 of 89 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Birds Eye Voila! Family Size Chicken Stir-Fry; Broccoli Cheddar Soup; Butter chicken curry sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Or Less Of itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
33 of 89 linked records have some flagged component
All 88 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Or Less Of - usage rank #3,412
- Usage rank
- #3,412
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 89 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 89 parsed labels, slot 14.1 on average. Or Less Of tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Or Less Of
Across the 89 products on this site that list Or Less Of, 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 5.2x more often with Or Less Of than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Or Less Of products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 11 | 12.4% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 9% | 3.4% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 7.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 5.6% | 5.4% |
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 Or Less Of
Products Containing Or Less Of
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 89 indexed products containing Or Less Of:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “As An Emulsifier”)
Top-decile company for Or Less Of: 89 listings averaging 87.7/100. Nearest count peers include “As An Emulsifier”, “Balsamic Vinegar Of Modena”, “Calcium Gluconate”.
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 Or Less Of evidence
89 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Or Less Of are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Or Less Of and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Or Less Of
Does Or Less Of carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Or Less Of. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of? ▼
Or Less Of ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,412 of 247,206), appearing in 89 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Or Less Of so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of appears in 89 products (#3,412 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of). 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.