Maintains Freshness
Maintains Freshness appears in 149 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
Maintains Freshness appears in 149 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.
- 149
- catalogued products
- #2,376
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 52 of 149 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Banana Flavored Banana Buddies Ice Pops, Banana; Beef Shepherd's Pie; Belfonte, Veggie Ranch Dip to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Maintains Freshness itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
52 of 149 linked records have some flagged component
All 149 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
Maintains Freshness sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,376 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,376
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 149 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Mean relative depth 82% across 149 parsed labels, slot 17.5 on average. Maintains Freshness tends to sit near the end of the captured 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 Maintains Freshness
Across the 149 products on this site that list Maintains Freshness, 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 5.5x more often with Maintains Freshness than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Maintains Freshness products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 37 | 24.8% | 4.5% |
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 Maintains Freshness
Products Containing Maintains Freshness
16 busy labels from the 149 indexed products that list Maintains Freshness:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “0% Dv”)
High-volume peers for Maintains Freshness: 149 products, mean screening score 96/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 0% Dv; Cultured Pasteurized Whole Milk; Enzyme Modified Soy Protein. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Maintains Freshness evidence
Use the 149-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Maintains Freshness before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Maintains Freshness next to “Cultured Pasteurized Whole Milk” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Maintains Freshness
Does Maintains Freshness carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Maintains Freshness. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Maintains Freshness? ▼
Maintains Freshness ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,376 of 247,206), appearing in 149 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Maintains Freshness so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maintains Freshness appears in 149 products (#2,376 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maintains Freshness). 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.