Monk fruit extract
Monk fruit extract carries a source-backed screening score of 2/5 and appears in 1,951 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Caution.”
Source-backed answer
Monk fruit extract appears in 1,951 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Caution.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1,951
- catalogued products
- #410
- usage rank of 247,206
- 540
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
Monk fruit extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#410 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #410
- 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
- 81%
- Averaged label depth puts Monk fruit extract near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 13.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Monk fruit extract spans 540 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Grass Fed Whey Protein; 100% Micellar Casein Protein; 100% Tangerine Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
540 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1938 of 1941 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 Monk fruit extract
Across the 1,951 products on this site that list Monk fruit extract, 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 Monk fruit extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 65 | 3.3% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 43 | 2.2% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 42 | 2.2% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 20 | 1% | 1.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 0.5% | 2.1% |
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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Monk fruit extract
Products Containing Monk fruit extract
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,951 indexed products containing Monk fruit extract:
High-volume peers for Monk fruit extract beside “Refined High Oleic Sunflower Oil”
Monk fruit extract sits among other busy catalog rows (1,951 products, mean score 99.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Refined High Oleic Sunflower Oil · Blue #1 · Lime Juice Concentrate. 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 Monk fruit extract record
1,951 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Monk fruit extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Monk fruit extract to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Monk fruit extract next to “Blue #1” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Monk fruit extract — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Monk fruit extract? ▼
Monk fruit extract has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 2/5. CSPI rates it "Caution." With only 8% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Monk fruit extract? ▼
Monk fruit extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#410 of 247,206), appearing in 1,951 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Monk fruit extract do in food? ▼
Monk fruit extract is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Monk fruit extract). 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.