Natural Mold Inhibitor
Natural Mold Inhibitor appears in 2,156 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
Natural Mold Inhibitor appears in 2,156 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.
- 2,156
- catalogued products
- #384
- usage rank of 247,206
- 295
- named brands represented
- 91%
- 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.
Natural Mold Inhibitor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#384 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #384
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 2,160 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 91%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,160 products listing it (mean slot 18.6). Natural Mold Inhibitor usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Mold Inhibitor spans 295 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 3 Cheese Blend; 4 Cheese Mexican Shredded Cheese; 4 Cheese Mexican Shredded Monterey Jack, Asadero, Cheddar & Queso Quesadilla Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
295 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1666 of 2117 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 Natural Mold Inhibitor
Across the 2,156 products on this site that list Natural Mold Inhibitor, 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 Natural Mold Inhibitor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 116 | 5.4% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 115 | 5.3% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 112 | 5.2% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 47 | 2.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 45 | 2.1% | 1.1% |
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 Natural Mold Inhibitor
Products Containing Natural Mold Inhibitor
High-volume slice (16 of 2,156) for products naming Natural Mold Inhibitor:
High-volume peers for Natural Mold Inhibitor beside “Shrimp”
Natural Mold Inhibitor sits among other busy catalog rows (2,156 products, mean score 97/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Shrimp; Pumpkin Seeds; Chili Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
What to do with this Natural Mold Inhibitor record
2,156 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Natural Mold Inhibitor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Natural Mold Inhibitor and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- 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 Natural Mold Inhibitor? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Mold Inhibitor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#384 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Mold Inhibitor? ▼
Natural Mold Inhibitor ranks in the top decile by product count (#384 of 247,206), appearing in 2,156 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Mold Inhibitor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Mold Inhibitor appears in 2,156 products (#384 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Mold Inhibitor). 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.