Oligofructose
Oligofructose carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 253 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Oligofructose appears in 253 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 253
- catalogued products
- #1,677
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Oligofructose: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,677 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,677
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 253 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Mean relative depth 53% across 253 parsed labels, slot 17.8 on average. Oligofructose tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 70 of 253 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Accelerate Morning Protein Bar; Accelerate Morning Protein Bar; Accelerate Morning Protein Bar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Oligofructose 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.
70 of 253 linked records have some flagged component
All 253 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Oligofructose
Across the 253 products on this site that list Oligofructose, 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 2.6x more often with Oligofructose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Oligofructose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 30 | 11.9% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 25 | 9.9% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 9.5% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 13 | 5.1% | 1.1% |
| Monk fruit extract | 8 | 3.2% | 0.5% |
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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Oligofructose
Products Containing Oligofructose
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 253 indexed products containing Oligofructose:
Oligofructose vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Oligofructose: 253 products, mean screening score 94.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Anchovy Extract · Anhydrous Milk Fat · Milk And Cream. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Oligofructose evidence
253 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Oligofructose are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Oligofructose 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. 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 Oligofructose
Does Oligofructose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Oligofructose itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Oligofructose? ▼
Oligofructose ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,677 of 247,206), appearing in 253 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Oligofructose do in food? ▼
Oligofructose is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oligofructose). 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.