Malt Extract
Malt Extract appears in 1,465 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
Malt Extract appears in 1,465 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.
- 1,465
- catalogued products
- #515
- usage rank of 247,206
- 407
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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: 383 of 1465 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 12 Pack Hazelnut Spread + Breadsticks; 14 Grain Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Malt Extract 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.
383 of 1,465 linked records have some flagged component
All 1439 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.
Malt Extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#515 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #515
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,482 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Mean relative depth 60% across 1,482 parsed labels, slot 16.8 on average. Malt Extract 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Malt Extract
Across the 1,465 products on this site that list Malt Extract, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Malt Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Malt Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 166 | 11.3% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 99 | 6.8% | 1.1% |
| Red 40 | 84 | 5.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 74 | 5.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 74 | 5.1% | 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.
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 Extract
Products Containing Malt Extract
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,465 indexed products containing Malt Extract:
High-volume peers for Malt Extract beside “Beet Powder”
Top-decile company for Malt Extract: 1,465 listings averaging 91.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Beet Powder · From Milk · Unsalted Butter.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Malt Extract record
Start from Malt Extract's 1,465 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Malt Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Malt Extract with a peer such as “Beet Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Extract
Does Malt Extract 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 Malt Extract. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Malt Extract? ▼
Malt Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#515 of 247,206), appearing in 1,465 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Malt Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Malt Extract appears in 1,465 products (#515 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malt Extract). 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.