Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose appears in 34 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
Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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: 11 of 34 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Coconut cream; Coconut Milk; Coconut milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
11 of 34 linked records have some flagged component
All 34 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose - usage rank #6,452
- Usage rank
- #6,452
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 34 products listing it (mean slot 13.4). Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
Across the 34 products on this site that list Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 16.8x more often with Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 23.5% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 20.6% | 4.5% |
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 Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
Products Containing Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
High-volume slice (16 of 34) for products naming Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose: 34 listings averaging 96/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose evidence
Start from Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose's 34 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose 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.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
Does Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose 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 Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose? ▼
Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose). 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.