Milk
Milk appears in 37,147 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
Milk appears in 37,147 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.
- 37,147
- catalogued products
- #20
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5,489
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 13007 of 37147 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0295 Milk Chocolate Baking Chips; 1% Chocolate Lowfat Milk; 1% Chocolate Milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Milk 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.
13007 of 37,147 linked records have some flagged component
All 36402 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.
Milk sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#20 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #20
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 37,246 parsed labels, slot 13.2 on average. Milk 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Milk
Across the 37,147 products on this site that list Milk, 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 3.6x more often with Milk than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Milk products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 5,992 | 16.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 3,157 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 2,323 | 6.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 2,266 | 6.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 2,092 | 5.6% | 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 Milk
Products Containing Milk
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 37,147 indexed products containing Milk:
High-volume peers for Milk beside “Xanthan Gum”
Top-decile company for Milk: 37,147 listings averaging 90.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Xanthan Gum · Reduced Iron · Enzymes.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Milk evidence
37,147 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Milk are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Milk before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Milk — common follow-ups
Does Milk 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 Milk. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Milk? ▼
Milk ranks in the top decile by product count (#20 of 247,206), appearing in 37,147 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Milk so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Milk appears in 37,147 products (#20 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Milk). 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.