Milk Powder

Milk Powder appears in 1,137 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 Powder appears in 1,137 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.

1,137
catalogued products
#608
usage rank of 247,206
398
named brands represented
47%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 283 of 1137 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Real Unreal; 15 Grain Snack; 20oz Vegetable Tray SSK to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Milk Powder 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.

283 of 1,137 linked records have some flagged component

All 1117 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.

High-volume listing for Milk Powder - usage rank #608

Usage rank
#608
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,137 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
47%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,137 products listing it (mean slot 11.7). Milk Powder usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Powder

Across the 1,137 products on this site that list Milk Powder, 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.

Caramel Coloring: +2.5ppCaramel Coloring+2.5ppCarrageenan: -0.4ppCarrageenan-0.4ppRed 40: -1.4ppRed 40-1.4ppYellow 5: -1.1ppYellow 5-1.1ppPolysorbate 60: +1.9ppPolysorbate 60+1.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Milk Powder products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
2.5pp
Carrageenan
-0.4pp
Red 40
-1.4pp
Yellow 5
-1.1pp
Polysorbate 60
1.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Milk Powder products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 93 8.2% 5.7%
Carrageenan 47 4.1% 4.5%
Red 40 46 4% 5.4%
Yellow 5 42 3.7% 4.8%
Polysorbate 60 37 3.3% 1.4%

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 Powder

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 16 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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Milk Powder
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “White Chocolate”)

Top-decile company for Milk Powder: 1,137 listings averaging 93.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: White Chocolate · Paprika Oleoresin · Crust.

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 Milk Powder page

Use the 1,137-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Milk Powder to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Milk Powder — common follow-ups

Does Milk Powder 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 Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Milk Powder?

Milk Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#608 of 247,206), appearing in 1,137 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Milk Powder so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Milk Powder appears in 1,137 products (#608 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Milk Powder). 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.