Precipitated Amorphous Silica

Precipitated Amorphous Silica appears in 4 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

Precipitated Amorphous Silica appears in 4 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.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
46%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Burrito Style Gorditas Flour Tortillas; whole wheat tortillas; El Sol Tortillas to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Precipitated Amorphous Silica itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 4 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.

Upper-half catalog placement for Precipitated Amorphous Silica (#28,812)

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
46%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4 products listing it (mean slot 19.0). Precipitated Amorphous Silica usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Precipitated Amorphous Silica

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 4 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 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Precipitated Amorphous Silica Burrito Style Gorditas Flour Tortillaswhole wheat tortillasEl Sol TortillasSausage & Buttermilk Biscuits
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.

Products Containing Precipitated Amorphous Silica

All 4 indexed products that name Precipitated Amorphous Silica:

Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles

Use the lists below to place Precipitated Amorphous Silica against similar footprints (4 products).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Precipitated Amorphous Silica evidence

Use the 4-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Precipitated Amorphous Silica before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Precipitated Amorphous Silica carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Precipitated Amorphous Silica. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Precipitated Amorphous Silica show up across the catalog?

Precipitated Amorphous Silica sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Precipitated Amorphous Silica so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Precipitated Amorphous Silica. Its in the upper half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Precipitated Amorphous Silica). 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.