Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking appears in 304 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

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking appears in 304 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.

304
catalogued products
#1,482
usage rank of 247,206
66
named brands represented
71%
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.

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,482 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,482
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 304 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
71%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 304 products listing it (mean slot 11.0). Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking spans 66 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with American Heritage, Cheddamelt, Shredded Imitation Cheddar Cheese; American Heritage, Mozzamelt, Shredded Imitation Mozzarella Cheese; Baked Spinach Empanadas With Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

66 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 157 of 299 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 Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking

Across the 304 products on this site that list Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking, 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 1.7x more often with Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +3.1ppCarrageenan+3.1ppSodium Nitrite: +0.2ppSodium Nitrite+0.2ppCaramel Coloring: -4.1ppCaramel Coloring-4.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
3.1pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.2pp
Caramel Coloring
-4.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking products Share of all products
Carrageenan 23 7.6% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 8 2.6% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 5 1.6% 5.7%

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 Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking”)

High-volume peers for Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking: 304 products, mean screening score 98.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking; Fenugreek; High Oleic Soybean Oil. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking record

304 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,482 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking?

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,482 of 247,206), appearing in 304 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking appears in 304 products (#1,482 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking). 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.