Monocalcium Glutamate
Monocalcium Glutamate appears in 5 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
Monocalcium Glutamate appears in 5 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.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
60% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Monocalcium Glutamate as the trigger. Open records such as Bites; Italian With Extra Virgin Olive Oil Dressing & Marinade; Potato Chips and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 54% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
60% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 5 of 5 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.
Monocalcium Glutamate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#24,708 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5 products listing it (mean slot 14.6). Monocalcium Glutamate usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Monocalcium Glutamate
Products Containing Monocalcium Glutamate
5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Monocalcium Glutamate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Monocalcium Glutamate sits among other busy catalog rows (5 products, mean score 85/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Monocalcium Glutamate evidence
Use the 5-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Monocalcium Glutamate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Monocalcium Glutamate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Monocalcium Glutamate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
60% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Monocalcium Glutamate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Monocalcium Glutamate? ▼
Monocalcium Glutamate ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Monocalcium Glutamate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Monocalcium Glutamate appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Monocalcium Glutamate). 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.