Msg
Msg appears in 9,294 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
Msg appears in 9,294 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.
- 9,294
- catalogued products
- #131
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,678
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4635 of 9294 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1000 Fajita Island Dressing & Dipping Sauce; 11.00Oz Cra Cool Ranch; 12 Country Sausage & Buttermilk Biscuits to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Msg itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4635 of 9,294 linked records have some flagged component
All 9294 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Msg - usage rank #131
- Usage rank
- #131
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9,334 products listing it (mean slot 14.4). Msg 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Msg
Across the 9,294 products on this site that list Msg, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3x more often with Msg than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Msg products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,602 | 17.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,318 | 14.2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,198 | 12.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 933 | 10% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 734 | 7.9% | 2.4% |
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 Msg
Products Containing Msg
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 9,294 indexed products containing Msg:
High-volume peers for Msg beside “Potatoes”
Msg sits among other busy catalog rows (9,294 products, mean score 84/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Potatoes · Calcium Sulfate · Carrots. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Msg page
9,294 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Msg are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Msg 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Msg
Does Msg carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Msg. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Msg? ▼
Msg ranks in the top decile by product count (#131 of 247,206), appearing in 9,294 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Msg so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Msg appears in 9,294 products (#131 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Msg). 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.