Magnesium Hydroxide
Magnesium Hydroxide carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 59 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Hydroxide appears in 59 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 59
- catalogued products
- #4,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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 Magnesium Hydroxide - usage rank #4,436
- Usage rank
- #4,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 62 others that also appear in exactly 59 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 59 products listing it (mean slot 11.6). Magnesium Hydroxide usually falls in the upper 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 29 of 59 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Advanced Nutrition Shake, Strawberry; Americana Medley Jelly Beans; Amino Build to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Magnesium Hydroxide itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
29 of 59 linked records have some flagged component
All 57 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Magnesium Hydroxide
Across the 59 products on this site that list Magnesium Hydroxide, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 5.6x more often with Magnesium Hydroxide than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Magnesium Hydroxide products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 15 | 25.4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 9 | 15.3% | 4.8% |
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.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Magnesium Hydroxide
Products Containing Magnesium Hydroxide
High-volume slice (16 of 59) for products naming Magnesium Hydroxide:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate”)
Magnesium Hydroxide sits among other busy catalog rows (59 products, mean score 92.3/100). Nearest count peers include “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate”, “Organic Alfalfa Grass”, “Dried Ancho Pepper”. 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 Magnesium Hydroxide page
59 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Magnesium Hydroxide are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Magnesium Hydroxide to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Magnesium Hydroxide next to “Organic Alfalfa Grass” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Magnesium Hydroxide
Does Magnesium Hydroxide carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Magnesium Hydroxide itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Magnesium Hydroxide? ▼
Magnesium Hydroxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,436 of 247,206), appearing in 59 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Magnesium Hydroxide do in food? ▼
Magnesium Hydroxide is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, drying agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium Hydroxide). 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.