Sugar Maltodextrin
Sugar Maltodextrin appears in 9 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
Sugar Maltodextrin appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sugar Maltodextrin as the trigger. Open records such as Bae Hong Dong; Caramel Tres Leches Bar; Chunky Soup and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 45% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 9 of 9 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Sugar Maltodextrin: top-decile catalog footprint (#16,390 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Sugar Maltodextrin in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 17.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 9 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 Sugar Maltodextrin
Products Containing Sugar Maltodextrin
9 busy labels from the 9 indexed products that list Sugar Maltodextrin:
Sugar Maltodextrin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sugar Maltodextrin: 9 products, mean screening score 95.6/100. 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 Sugar Maltodextrin record
Start from Sugar Maltodextrin's 9 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sugar Maltodextrin before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sugar Maltodextrin — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sugar Maltodextrin sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sugar Maltodextrin is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sugar Maltodextrin? ▼
Sugar Maltodextrin ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sugar Maltodextrin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sugar Maltodextrin appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sugar Maltodextrin). 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.