Or Less Of Water
Or Less Of Water appears in 248 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 Water appears in 248 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.
- 248
- catalogued products
- #1,696
- usage rank of 247,206
- 58
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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
72.6% 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 Water as the trigger. Open records such as Beef & Cheese; Beef Stew; Beef stew and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 68.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 42% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 228 of 247 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.
High-volume listing for Or Less Of Water - usage rank #1,696
- Usage rank
- #1,696
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 248 parsed labels, slot 16.8 on average. Or Less Of Water tends to sit in the upper 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 Water
Across the 248 products on this site that list Or Less Of Water, 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. BHA shows up about 78.9x more often with Or Less Of Water than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Or Less Of Water products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHA | 137 | 55.2% | 0.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 129 | 52% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 128 | 51.6% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 19 | 7.7% | 0.2% |
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 Water
Products Containing Or Less Of Water
16 busy labels from the 248 indexed products that list Or Less Of Water:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Half And Half”)
Or Less Of Water sits among other busy catalog rows (248 products, mean score 68.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Half And Half · Bicarbonate Of Soda · Gum Tragacanth. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Or Less Of Water page
Start from Or Less Of Water's 248 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 Water before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Or Less Of Water sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72.6% 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 Water 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 Water? ▼
Or Less Of Water ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,696 of 247,206), appearing in 248 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Or Less Of Water so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Water appears in 248 products (#1,696 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Water). 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.