Powered Cellulose
Powered Cellulose appears in 19 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
Powered Cellulose appears in 19 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.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- 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.
Powered Cellulose: top-decile catalog footprint (#9,730 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Mean relative depth 71% across 19 parsed labels, slot 19.3 on average. Powered Cellulose tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 15.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Powered Cellulose spans 14 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Alessio's, Home Style Jumbo Cheese Ravioli; Artisan Blue Cheese Crumbles; Cheese & pesto saccottini when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 19 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.
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 Powered Cellulose
Products Containing Powered Cellulose
High-volume slice (16 of 19) for products naming Powered Cellulose:
Powered Cellulose vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Powered Cellulose sits among other busy catalog rows (19 products, mean score 96.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Powered Cellulose evidence
Start from Powered Cellulose's 19 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Powered Cellulose and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Powered Cellulose? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Powered Cellulose, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,730 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Powered Cellulose? ▼
Powered Cellulose ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Powered Cellulose so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Powered Cellulose appears in 19 products (#9,730 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Powered Cellulose). 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.