Live And Active Cultures
Live And Active Cultures appears in 623 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
Live And Active Cultures appears in 623 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.
- 623
- catalogued products
- #906
- usage rank of 247,206
- 104
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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 Live And Active Cultures - usage rank #906
- Usage rank
- #906
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 623 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 623 products listing it (mean slot 8.8). Live And Active Cultures usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Live And Active Cultures spans 104 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 2% Low Fat Cottage Cheese; 2% Low-Fat Classic; 2% Low-Fat Classic Cottage Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
104 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 518 of 605 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 Live And Active Cultures
Across the 623 products on this site that list Live And Active Cultures, 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 Live And Active Cultures products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 14 | 2.2% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 13 | 2.1% | 1.8% |
| Monk fruit extract | 7 | 1.1% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 0.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 0.8% | 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 Live And Active Cultures
Products Containing Live And Active Cultures
High-volume slice (16 of 623) for products naming Live And Active Cultures:
Live And Active Cultures vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Live And Active Cultures sits among other busy catalog rows (623 products, mean score 99.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Beef Broth”, “Beet”, “Sweet Cream Buttermilk”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Live And Active Cultures page
Start from Live And Active Cultures's 623 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Live And Active Cultures and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Live And Active Cultures with a peer such as “Beef Broth” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Live And Active Cultures — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Live And Active Cultures? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Live And Active Cultures, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#906 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Live And Active Cultures? ▼
Live And Active Cultures ranks in the top decile by product count (#906 of 247,206), appearing in 623 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Live And Active Cultures so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Live And Active Cultures appears in 623 products (#906 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Live And Active Cultures). 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.