Minerals
Minerals appears in 111 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
Minerals appears in 111 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.
- 111
- catalogued products
- #2,917
- usage rank of 247,206
- 51
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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.
Minerals: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,917 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,917
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 111 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Mean relative depth 51% across 111 parsed labels, slot 16.3 on average. Minerals tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Minerals spans 51 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with All-In-One Nutrition Shake; Almond Barista Buddy; Almond No Sugars when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
51 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 93 of 104 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Minerals
Across the 111 products on this site that list Minerals, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Minerals products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 5 | 4.5% | 4.5% |
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 Minerals
Products Containing Minerals
16 busy labels from the 111 indexed products that list Minerals:
Minerals vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Minerals: 111 listings averaging 96.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Aloe Vera Gel; Candelilla Wax; Carrot Extract.
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 Minerals page
111 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Minerals are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Minerals and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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 Minerals? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Minerals, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,917 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Minerals? ▼
Minerals ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,917 of 247,206), appearing in 111 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Minerals so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Minerals appears in 111 products (#2,917 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Minerals). 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.