Mi
Mi appears in 15 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
Mi appears in 15 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.
- 15
- catalogued products
- #11,449
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 96%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Mi - usage rank #11,449
- Usage rank
- #11,449
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 96%
- Averaged label depth puts Mi near the end of the captured list (96% of list length, mean slot 20.5). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mi spans 13 named brands and is led by the Undefined group. Start with Cheese Baked Snack Crackers; Cheese Crackers; Classic Shrimp Scampi & Linguine when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 14 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 15 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 Mi
Products Containing Mi
High-volume slice (15 of 15) for products naming Mi:
Mi vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Mi sits among other busy catalog rows (15 products, mean score 97/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Mi page
Use the 15-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Mi 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. 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mi? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mi, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,449 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mi? ▼
Mi ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mi so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mi appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mi). 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.