Psyllium Powder
Psyllium Powder appears in 21 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 Powder appears in 21 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.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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 Psyllium Powder - usage rank #9,037
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 21 products listing it (mean slot 11.7). Psyllium Powder 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Psyllium Powder spans 8 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Artisan Flatbread And Pizza Crust; Artisan Flatbreads; Blueberry quinoa breakfast toastables, blueberry when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 20 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 Powder
Products Containing Psyllium Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 21) for products naming Psyllium Powder:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Psyllium Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (21 products, mean score 99.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Psyllium Powder page
Use the 21-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Psyllium Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Psyllium Powder
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Psyllium Powder? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Psyllium Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Psyllium Powder? ▼
Psyllium Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Psyllium Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Psyllium Powder appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Psyllium Powder). 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.