Malodextrin
Malodextrin appears in 10 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
Malodextrin appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 Big Smile Glazed Donuts; BUFFALO WILDE PROTEIN CHIPS; Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Malodextrin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
High-volume listing for Malodextrin - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 10 parsed labels, slot 17.5 on average. Malodextrin tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Malodextrin
Products Containing Malodextrin
High-volume slice (10 of 10) for products naming Malodextrin:
Malodextrin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Malodextrin: 10 products, mean screening score 88/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Malodextrin page
10 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Malodextrin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Malodextrin and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Malodextrin
Does Malodextrin 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 Malodextrin. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Malodextrin? ▼
Malodextrin ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Malodextrin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Malodextrin appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malodextrin). 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.