Maltodextrin Made From Corn

Maltodextrin Made From Corn appears in 9 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

Maltodextrin Made From Corn appears in 9 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.

9
catalogued products
#16,390
usage rank of 247,206
7
named brands represented
45%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 9 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Baked Popped Mix; CHEESE MIX; Cheetos Popcorn Cheddar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Maltodextrin Made From Corn itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

3 of 9 linked records have some flagged component

All 9 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.

Maltodextrin Made From Corn sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#16,390 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#16,390
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
45%
Averaged label depth puts Maltodextrin Made From Corn in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 14.1). 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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 9 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 Maltodextrin Made From Corn

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Maltodextrin Made From Corn Baked Popped MixCHEESE MIXCheetos Popcorn CheddarDoritos Dinamita Chile LimónKettle Cooked Potato Chips Sea Salt & Vinegar FlavoredLays Potato Chips Lightly Salted Cheddar and Sour CreamThe crunchy and wholesome popped-corn snack spicy quesoTurbosWhite cheddar of bones
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Maltodextrin Made From Corn vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Maltodextrin Made From Corn: 9 products, mean screening score 83.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Maltodextrin Made From Corn evidence

Use the 9-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Maltodextrin Made From Corn before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Maltodextrin Made From Corn 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 Maltodextrin Made From Corn. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Maltodextrin Made From Corn?

Maltodextrin Made From Corn ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Maltodextrin Made From Corn so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maltodextrin Made From Corn appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maltodextrin Made From Corn). 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.