Nucleotides
Nucleotides appears in 98 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
Nucleotides appears in 98 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.
- 98
- catalogued products
- #3,174
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Nucleotides - usage rank #3,174
- Usage rank
- #3,174
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 83%
- Averaged label depth puts Nucleotides near the end of the captured list (83% of list length, mean slot 44.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Nucleotides spans 25 named brands and is led by the Baby foods group. Start with 360 Total Care Infant Formula; A2 Whole Milk Toddler Formula; Advantage infant formula milk based powder with iron when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
25 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 96 of 98 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 Nucleotides
Across the 98 products on this site that list Nucleotides, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3x more often with Nucleotides than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Nucleotides products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 13 | 13.3% | 4.5% |
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 Nucleotides
Products Containing Nucleotides
High-volume slice (16 of 98) for products naming Nucleotides:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”)
Nucleotides sits among other busy catalog rows (98 products, mean score 99.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus · Anti-caking Agents · Asiago. 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 Nucleotides record
Start from Nucleotides's 98 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Nucleotides and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Nucleotides with a peer such as “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Nucleotides
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Nucleotides? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Nucleotides, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,174 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Nucleotides? ▼
Nucleotides ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Baby foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Nucleotides so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Nucleotides appears in 98 products (#3,174 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Nucleotides). 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.