Sweet Dairy Whey

Sweet Dairy Whey appears in 145 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

Sweet Dairy Whey appears in 145 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.

145
catalogued products
#2,409
usage rank of 247,206
54
named brands represented
53%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 48 of 145 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% whole wheat bread, whole wheat; A white chocolate bar dairy dizzy with peanuts & toasted coconut; Aunt millie's, best grain, whole grain premium bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sweet Dairy Whey 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.

48 of 145 linked records have some flagged component

All 142 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.

Sweet Dairy Whey sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,409 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,409
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 145 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
53%
Mean relative depth 53% across 145 parsed labels, slot 18.5 on average. Sweet Dairy Whey tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Sweet Dairy Whey

Across the 145 products on this site that list Sweet Dairy Whey, 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 2.6x more often with Sweet Dairy Whey than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +7.2ppCarrageenan+7.2ppPolysorbate 60: +5.5ppPolysorbate 60+5.5ppCaramel Coloring: +1.2ppCaramel Coloring+1.2ppAzodicarbonamide: +6ppAzodicarbonamide+6ppSodium Nitrite: +3.8ppSodium Nitrite+3.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Sweet Dairy Whey products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
7.2pp
Polysorbate 60
5.5pp
Caramel Coloring
1.2pp
Azodicarbonamide
6pp
Sodium Nitrite
3.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Sweet Dairy Whey products Share of all products
Carrageenan 17 11.7% 4.5%
Polysorbate 60 10 6.9% 1.4%
Caramel Coloring 10 6.9% 5.7%
Azodicarbonamide 9 6.2% 0.2%
Sodium Nitrite 9 6.2% 2.4%

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 Sweet Dairy Whey

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 708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sweet Dairy Whey
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 “Black Tea Extract”)

Top-decile company for Sweet Dairy Whey: 145 listings averaging 92.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Black Tea Extract”, “Confectioners' Glaze”, “Dark Chocolate Coating”.

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 Sweet Dairy Whey record

Use the 145-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Sweet Dairy Whey

Does Sweet Dairy Whey 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 Sweet Dairy Whey. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Sweet Dairy Whey?

Sweet Dairy Whey ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,409 of 247,206), appearing in 145 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 Sweet Dairy Whey so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweet Dairy Whey appears in 145 products (#2,409 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweet Dairy Whey). 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.