Psyllium
Psyllium appears in 179 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
Psyllium appears in 179 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.
- 179
- catalogued products
- #2,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
Psyllium: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,091 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 179 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 179 parsed labels, slot 15.4 on average. Psyllium 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Psyllium spans 64 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 18g Protein Black Bean Burger; All Seed Savory Crisp - Cumin; Amy's Spinach Pizza with Veggie Crust when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
64 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 174 of 177 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 Psyllium
Products Containing Psyllium
16 busy labels from the 179 indexed products that list Psyllium:
High-volume peers for Psyllium beside “Dutched Cocoa”
Psyllium sits among other busy catalog rows (179 products, mean score 99.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Dutched Cocoa · Penicillium Roqueforti · Butter Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Psyllium record
Start from Psyllium's 179 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Psyllium to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. See source joins
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 Psyllium? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Psyllium, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,091 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Psyllium? ▼
Psyllium ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,091 of 247,206), appearing in 179 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Psyllium so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Psyllium appears in 179 products (#2,091 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Psyllium). 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.