Polyvinylpyrrolidone
Polyvinylpyrrolidone carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 5 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Polyvinylpyrrolidone appears in 5 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. 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.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
Polyvinylpyrrolidone: top-decile catalog footprint (#24,708 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Polyvinylpyrrolidone in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 11.6). 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
80% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Polyvinylpyrrolidone as the trigger. Open records such as Citracal; Essential; Market pantry, kettle-cooked popcorn, candy corn and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 62% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
80% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 5 of 5 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Function
FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Polyvinylpyrrolidone
Products Containing Polyvinylpyrrolidone
5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Polyvinylpyrrolidone:
Polyvinylpyrrolidone vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Polyvinylpyrrolidone: 5 products, mean screening score 70/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Polyvinylpyrrolidone evidence
Start from Polyvinylpyrrolidone's 5 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Polyvinylpyrrolidone before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Polyvinylpyrrolidone
How should I read safety signals when Polyvinylpyrrolidone sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
80% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Polyvinylpyrrolidone is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Polyvinylpyrrolidone scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Polyvinylpyrrolidone? ▼
Polyvinylpyrrolidone ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Polyvinylpyrrolidone serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Polyvinylpyrrolidone is recorded as a formulation aid, processing aid, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Polyvinylpyrrolidone). 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.