Skim
Skim appears in 35 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
Skim appears in 35 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.
- 35
- catalogued products
- #6,340
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
Skim: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,340 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,340
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 35 parsed labels, slot 7.5 on average. Skim 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Skim spans 20 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Assorted Chocolate Truffles; Bob & Kurt's Sentry, Cookies, Chocolate Chip; Chipotle Cream when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 34 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 Skim
Products Containing Skim
16 busy labels from the 35 indexed products that list Skim:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Skim: 35 products, mean screening score 93.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Skim record
Start from Skim's 35 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Skim 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. 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 Skim
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Skim? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Skim, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,340 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Skim? ▼
Skim ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Skim so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Skim appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Skim). 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.