Sour Cream
Sour Cream appears in 2,714 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
Sour Cream appears in 2,714 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.
- 2,714
- catalogued products
- #330
- usage rank of 247,206
- 622
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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: 1005 of 2714 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2-slice fudge brownie cheesecake; 20oz Vegetable Tray SSK; 3 cheese spinach & Artichoke pasta to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sour Cream itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1005 of 2,714 linked records have some flagged component
All 2683 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Sour Cream: top-decile catalog footprint (#330 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #330
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Mean relative depth 44% across 2,739 parsed labels, slot 16.6 on average. Sour Cream tends to sit in the upper 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 Sour Cream
Across the 2,714 products on this site that list Sour Cream, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 4.2x more often with Sour Cream than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sour Cream products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 510 | 18.8% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 243 | 9% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 222 | 8.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 221 | 8.1% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 110 | 4.1% | 5.4% |
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 Sour Cream
Products Containing Sour Cream
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,714 indexed products containing Sour Cream:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Brown Rice Flour”)
Sour Cream sits among other busy catalog rows (2,714 products, mean score 90.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Brown Rice Flour · Durum Wheat Semolina · Dried Cane Syrup. 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 Sour Cream record
Start from Sour Cream's 2,714 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sour Cream to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sour Cream — common follow-ups
Does Sour Cream 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 Sour Cream. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sour Cream? ▼
Sour Cream ranks in the top decile by product count (#330 of 247,206), appearing in 2,714 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sour Cream so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sour Cream appears in 2,714 products (#330 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sour Cream). 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.