Maltose
Maltose carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 152 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Maltose appears in 152 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 152
- catalogued products
- #2,346
- usage rank of 247,206
- 74
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Maltose sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,346 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,346
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 152 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 152 parsed labels, slot 11.0 on average. Maltose tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 41 of 152 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Agar Candy (Original Flavor); Amber Walnut Kernels; Black sesame cake to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Maltose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
41 of 152 linked records have some flagged component
All 142 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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 Maltose
Across the 152 products on this site that list Maltose, 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 2.3x more often with Maltose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Maltose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 16 | 10.5% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 12 | 7.9% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 5.9% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 7 | 4.6% | 1.4% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 3.9% | 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
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
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 Maltose
Products Containing Maltose
16 busy labels from the 152 indexed products that list Maltose:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Acids”)
High-volume peers for Maltose: 152 products, mean screening score 92.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural Acids”, “Artichoke”, “Cooked Enriched Pasta”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Maltose page
Use the 152-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Maltose and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Maltose next to “Artichoke” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Maltose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Maltose itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Maltose? ▼
Maltose ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,346 of 247,206), appearing in 152 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Maltose do in food? ▼
Maltose is recorded as a nutritive sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maltose). 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.