Microbial Rennet
Microbial Rennet appears in 482 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
Microbial Rennet appears in 482 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.
- 482
- catalogued products
- #1,085
- usage rank of 293,342
- 145
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
Where Microbial Rennet sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #1,085
- of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Of the way down the list, averaged across the 482 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Microbial Rennet usually falls in the lower half of the list, so it is typically a smaller component by weight.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How common is Microbial Rennet vs other flagged additives?
Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Microbial Rennet highlighted.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Microbial Rennet spans 145 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 3 Cheese Pasta with Eggplant; 3 cheeses and tomato sauce seasoned with extra virgin olive oil pizza, three cheese; 365 everyday value, organic five cheese ravioli when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 230 of 451 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.
Products Containing Microbial Rennet
A sample of 16 of the 482 indexed products containing Microbial Rennet, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Microbial Rennet safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Microbial Rennet, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Microbial Rennet? ▼
Microbial Rennet is found in 482 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Microbial Rennet do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Microbial Rennet. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
