Maca Extract
Maca Extract appears in 19 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
Maca Extract appears in 19 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.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Maca Extract sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,730 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 19 products listing it (mean slot 10.9). Maca Extract 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.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Maca Extract spans 5 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Maca Extract 1000mg; Oatmeal Cookie Protein Shake; OLLY LOVIN LIBIDO when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 19 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.
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 Maca Extract
Products Containing Maca Extract
16 busy labels from the 19 indexed products that list Maca Extract:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Maca Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (19 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Maca Extract record
Start from Maca Extract's 19 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Maca Extract to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Maca Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Maca Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,730 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Maca Extract? ▼
Maca Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Maca Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maca Extract appears in 19 products (#9,730 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maca Extract). 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.