Sour Cream Powder

Sour Cream Powder appears in 380 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 Powder appears in 380 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.

380
catalogued products
#1,251
usage rank of 247,206
152
named brands represented
51%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 94 of 380 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A&G, Veggie Sticks, Sriracha Sour Cream; Albrecht's Delafield Market, Cajun Crunch Mix; All-Purpose Ranch Seasoning to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sour Cream Powder itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

94 of 380 linked records have some flagged component

All 377 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.

High-volume listing for Sour Cream Powder - usage rank #1,251

Usage rank
#1,251
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 380 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Mean relative depth 51% across 380 parsed labels, slot 19.1 on average. Sour Cream Powder tends to sit in the lower 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Sour Cream Powder

Across the 380 products on this site that list Sour Cream Powder, 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.

Caramel Coloring: +1.9ppCaramel Coloring+1.9ppCarrageenan: +2.1ppCarrageenan+2.1ppYellow 6: +1.6ppYellow 6+1.6ppYellow 5: -0.3ppYellow 5-0.3ppBHT: +3.4ppBHT+3.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Sour Cream Powder products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
1.9pp
Carrageenan
2.1pp
Yellow 6
1.6pp
Yellow 5
-0.3pp
BHT
3.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Sour Cream Powder products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 29 7.6% 5.7%
Carrageenan 25 6.6% 4.5%
Yellow 6 19 5% 3.4%
Yellow 5 17 4.5% 4.8%
BHT 17 4.5% 1.1%

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 Powder

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sour Cream Powder
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ripe Olives”)

Top-decile company for Sour Cream Powder: 380 listings averaging 93.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Ripe Olives”, “Sodium Metabisulphite”, “Organic Carrot Juice”.

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 Sour Cream Powder page

380 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sour Cream Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Sour Cream Powder and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare Sour Cream Powder with a peer such as “Ripe Olives” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.

Sour Cream Powder — common follow-ups

Does Sour Cream Powder 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 Powder. 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 Powder?

Sour Cream Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,251 of 247,206), appearing in 380 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Sour Cream Powder so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sour Cream Powder appears in 380 products (#1,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sour Cream 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.