Silica
Silica appears in 598 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
Silica appears in 598 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.
- 598
- catalogued products
- #939
- usage rank of 247,206
- 220
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 175 of 598 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1st Phorm, Megawatt Strawberry Lemonade; 3rd Trimester Prenatal Pack; 50 Sensitive to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Silica itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
175 of 598 linked records have some flagged component
All 559 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
Silica: top-decile catalog footprint (#939 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #939
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 598 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 598 parsed labels, slot 14.8 on average. Silica tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Silica
Across the 598 products on this site that list Silica, 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. Sucralose shows up about 6x more often with Silica than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Silica products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 97 | 16.2% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 51 | 8.5% | 1.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 32 | 5.4% | 2.1% |
| Monk fruit extract | 22 | 3.7% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 2.8% | 5.7% |
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 Silica
Products Containing Silica
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 598 indexed products containing Silica:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Raisin Juice Concentrate”)
Top-decile company for Silica: 598 listings averaging 93.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Raisin Juice Concentrate · Reduced Lactose Whey · Added To Prevent Caking.
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.
Next steps from the Silica page
598 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Silica are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Silica 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. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Silica — common follow-ups
Does 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 Silica. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Silica? ▼
Silica ranks in the top decile by product count (#939 of 247,206), appearing in 598 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Silica so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Silica appears in 598 products (#939 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.