Prebiotic
Prebiotic appears in 56 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
Prebiotic appears in 56 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.
- 56
- catalogued products
- #4,615
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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 Prebiotic - usage rank #4,615
- Usage rank
- #4,615
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 56 parsed labels, slot 8.1 on average. Prebiotic tends to sit in the upper 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 5.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Prebiotic spans 19 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with allmax protien; Banana Nut; Banana, Apple, Berry & Pomegranate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 48 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 Prebiotic
Across the 56 products on this site that list Prebiotic, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 28.6x more often with Prebiotic than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Prebiotic products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 8 | 14.3% | 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.
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 Prebiotic
Products Containing Prebiotic
16 busy labels from the 56 indexed products that list Prebiotic:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Almond Base”)
High-volume peers for Prebiotic: 56 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Almond Base; Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture; Beta-carotene For Color. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Prebiotic record
Use the 56-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Prebiotic to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Prebiotic next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Prebiotic
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Prebiotic? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Prebiotic, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,615 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Prebiotic? ▼
Prebiotic ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Prebiotic so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Prebiotic appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Prebiotic). 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.