Malt
Malt carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,772 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Malt appears in 1,772 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1,772
- catalogued products
- #447
- usage rank of 247,206
- 544
- 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.
Malt: top-decile catalog footprint (#447 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #447
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Malt in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 16.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 367 of 1772 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 Grain and Seed Bread; 100% whole grain bread; 100% Whole Wheat Bagels to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Malt 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.
367 of 1,772 linked records have some flagged component
All 1731 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Malt
Across the 1,772 products on this site that list Malt, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Malt products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 111 | 6.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 85 | 4.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 72 | 4.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 68 | 3.8% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 63 | 3.6% | 4.2% |
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
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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 Malt
Products Containing Malt
16 busy labels from the 1,772 indexed products that list Malt:
Malt vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Malt sits among other busy catalog rows (1,772 products, mean score 93.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Stabilizers; Smoke Flavoring; Tamarind. 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.
Using the Malt evidence
Use the 1,772-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Malt to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Malt next to “Smoke Flavoring” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Malt
Does Malt carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Malt itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" 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 Malt? ▼
Malt ranks in the top decile by product count (#447 of 247,206), appearing in 1,772 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Malt do in food? ▼
Malt is recorded as a enzyme in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malt). 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.