Milk Protein Isolate

Milk Protein Isolate appears in 1,747 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 Protein Isolate appears in 1,747 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.

1,747
catalogued products
#451
usage rank of 247,206
295
named brands represented
19%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

52.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Milk Protein Isolate as the trigger. Open records such as 100 calories protein nutrition shake; 30g Protein Nutritional Shake Dulce de Leche; 30g protein shake milk protein shake vanilla bean flavored and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 19% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

52.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1747 of 1747 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Milk Protein Isolate - usage rank #451

Usage rank
#451
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
19%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,747 products listing it (mean slot 6.3). Milk Protein Isolate usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Milk Protein Isolate

Across the 1,747 products on this site that list Milk Protein Isolate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 16.5x more often with Milk Protein Isolate than in the catalogue at large.

Sucralose: +41.8ppSucralose+41.8ppCarrageenan: +16.3ppCarrageenan+16.3ppAcesulfame Potassium: +16.1ppAcesulfame Potassium+16.1ppMonk fruit extract: +5.7ppMonk fruit extract+5.7ppCaramel Coloring: -1.1ppCaramel Coloring-1.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Milk Protein Isolate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Sucralose
41.8pp
Carrageenan
16.3pp
Acesulfame Potassium
16.1pp
Monk fruit extract
5.7pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Milk Protein Isolate products Share of all products
Sucralose 778 44.5% 2.7%
Carrageenan 363 20.8% 4.5%
Acesulfame Potassium 312 17.9% 1.8%
Monk fruit extract 109 6.2% 0.5%
Caramel Coloring 80 4.6% 5.7%

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 Protein Isolate

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 60708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Milk Protein Isolate
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.

Milk Protein Isolate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Milk Protein Isolate: 1,747 listings averaging 87.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Green Onion; Natural Butter Flavor; Skim Milk Powder.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Milk Protein Isolate evidence

Use the 1,747-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Milk Protein Isolate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Milk Protein Isolate sits in heavily flagged products?

52.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Milk Protein Isolate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Milk Protein Isolate?

Milk Protein Isolate ranks in the top decile by product count (#451 of 247,206), appearing in 1,747 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Milk Protein Isolate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Milk Protein Isolate appears in 1,747 products (#451 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Milk Protein Isolate). 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.