Or Less Of Dextrose

Or Less Of Dextrose appears in 356 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 Dextrose appears in 356 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.

356
catalogued products
#1,314
usage rank of 247,206
84
named brands represented
48%
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.

How to use this page

Audit the co-occurring flags first

64.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Or Less Of Dextrose as the trigger. Open records such as Air heados; Airheads filled ropes; America's diner style hash browns shredded potatoes, hash browns and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 78.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 48% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

64.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 295 of 322 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.

Or Less Of Dextrose sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,314 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,314
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 356 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
48%
Mean relative depth 48% across 356 parsed labels, slot 15.7 on average. Or Less Of Dextrose tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 else is usually in the same product as Or Less Of Dextrose

Across the 356 products on this site that list Or Less Of Dextrose, 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 20.8x more often with Or Less Of Dextrose than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +47.6ppSodium Nitrite+47.6ppBHT: +31.2ppBHT+31.2ppBHA: +31ppBHA+31ppCarrageenan: +1.7ppCarrageenan+1.7ppCaramel Coloring: -1.8ppCaramel Coloring-1.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Or Less Of Dextrose products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
47.6pp
BHT
31.2pp
BHA
31pp
Carrageenan
1.7pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Dextrose products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 178 50% 2.4%
BHT 115 32.3% 1.1%
BHA 113 31.7% 0.7%
Carrageenan 22 6.2% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 14 3.9% 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 Or Less Of Dextrose

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Dextrose
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.

High-volume peers for Or Less Of Dextrose beside “Pear Puree”

Or Less Of Dextrose sits among other busy catalog rows (356 products, mean score 78.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Pear Puree”, “Pork Stock”, “Fat Free Milk”. 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 Or Less Of Dextrose evidence

Start from Or Less Of Dextrose's 356 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Or Less Of Dextrose before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Or Less Of Dextrose next to “Pork Stock” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Or Less Of Dextrose — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Or Less Of Dextrose sits in heavily flagged products?

64.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Or Less Of Dextrose is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of Dextrose?

Or Less Of Dextrose ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,314 of 247,206), appearing in 356 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Or Less Of Dextrose so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Dextrose appears in 356 products (#1,314 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Dextrose). 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.