Non-animal
Non-animal appears in 110 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
Non-animal appears in 110 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.
- 110
- catalogued products
- #2,934
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Non-animal sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,934 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,934
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 110 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 110 parsed labels, slot 7.4 on average. Non-animal tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 2.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Non-animal spans 20 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Alphabet Macaroni & Cheese Dinner; American Cheese; American-Style Colby Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 55 of 106 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.
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 Non-animal
Products Containing Non-animal
High-volume slice (16 of 110) for products naming Non-animal:
High-volume peers for Non-animal beside “Apricot Puree”
Non-animal sits among other busy catalog rows (110 products, mean score 99.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Apricot Puree”, “Cream Cheese Powder”, “Cultured Low Fat Milk”. 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.
What to do with this Non-animal record
110 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Non-animal are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Non-animal and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Non-animal next to “Cream Cheese Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Non-animal — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Non-animal? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Non-animal, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,934 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Non-animal? ▼
Non-animal ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,934 of 247,206), appearing in 110 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Non-animal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Non-animal appears in 110 products (#2,934 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Non-animal). 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.