Papain
Papain carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 224 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Papain appears in 224 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.
- 224
- catalogued products
- #1,809
- usage rank of 247,206
- 98
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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 Papain - usage rank #1,809
- Usage rank
- #1,809
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 224 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Mean relative depth 79% across 224 parsed labels, slot 22.2 on average. Papain 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 49 of 224 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Mass Gainer Vanilla Milkshake; 100% whey protein blend to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Papain itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
49 of 224 linked records have some flagged component
All 220 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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 Papain
Across the 224 products on this site that list Papain, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2.3x more often with Papain than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Papain products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 14 | 6.3% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 4.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 4.5% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 8 | 3.6% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 3.6% | 3.4% |
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.
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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 Papain
Products Containing Papain
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 224 indexed products containing Papain:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cupric Sulfate”)
Top-decile company for Papain: 224 listings averaging 95.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Cupric Sulfate”, “Jasmine Rice”, “Pistachio”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Papain record
Start from Papain's 224 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Papain and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Papain — common follow-ups
Does Papain carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Papain 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 Papain? ▼
Papain ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,809 of 247,206), appearing in 224 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Papain do in food? ▼
Papain is recorded as a other in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Papain). 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.