Magnesium Silicate
Magnesium Silicate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 49 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Silicate appears in 49 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.
- 49
- catalogued products
- #5,044
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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 Silicate - usage rank #5,044
- Usage rank
- #5,044
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 64 others that also appear in exactly 49 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 49 products listing it (mean slot 21.4). Magnesium Silicate 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.
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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
75.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Magnesium Silicate as the trigger. Open records such as 600 Calcium Supplement; B-Complex, Plus Vitamin C; Caramel Tres Leches Bar Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 58.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 63% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
75.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 48 of 48 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Magnesium Silicate
Across the 49 products on this site that list Magnesium Silicate, 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. Red 40 shows up about 7.9x more often with Magnesium Silicate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Magnesium Silicate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 21 | 42.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 16 | 32.7% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 16 | 32.7% | 4.2% |
| Red 3 | 16 | 32.7% | 1.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 13 | 26.5% | 3.4% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FORMULATION 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 Silicate
Products Containing Magnesium Silicate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 49 indexed products containing Magnesium Silicate:
Magnesium Silicate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Magnesium Silicate: 49 listings averaging 58.7/100.
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 Magnesium Silicate record
49 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Magnesium Silicate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Magnesium Silicate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Magnesium Silicate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Magnesium Silicate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
75.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Magnesium Silicate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Magnesium Silicate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Magnesium Silicate? ▼
Magnesium Silicate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,044 of 247,206), appearing in 49 indexed products led by Baking-decorations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Magnesium Silicate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Magnesium Silicate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, formulation aid in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium Silicate). 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.