Natamycin
Natamycin carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 4,012 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Natamycin appears in 4,012 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 4,012
- catalogued products
- #254
- usage rank of 247,206
- 601
- named brands represented
- 80%
- 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.
Natamycin: top-decile catalog footprint (#254 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #254
- 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
- 80%
- Mean relative depth 80% across 4,014 parsed labels, slot 19.1 on average. Natamycin tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natamycin spans 601 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 100% pure sheep's milk crumbles; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
601 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 3305 of 3929 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 Natamycin
Across the 4,012 products on this site that list Natamycin, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.1x more often with Natamycin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natamycin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 299 | 7.5% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 286 | 7.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 202 | 5% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 120 | 3% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 99 | 2.5% | 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.
Function
FUMIGANT
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 Natamycin
Products Containing Natamycin
High-volume slice (16 of 4,012) for products naming Natamycin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Tapioca Syrup”)
Top-decile company for Natamycin: 4,012 listings averaging 96.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Tapioca Syrup · Tricalcium Phosphate · Soy Protein Isolate.
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.
Using the Natamycin evidence
Use the 4,012-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Natamycin and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Natamycin with a peer such as “Tapioca Syrup” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Natamycin
What do the source ratings say about Natamycin? ▼
Natamycin has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 5/5. CSPI rates it "Safe." FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 19.8% 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 Natamycin? ▼
Natamycin ranks in the top decile by product count (#254 of 247,206), appearing in 4,012 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Natamycin do in food? ▼
Natamycin is recorded as a fumigant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natamycin). 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.