Sweet Whey
Sweet Whey appears in 376 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 Whey appears in 376 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.
- 376
- catalogued products
- #1,262
- usage rank of 247,206
- 135
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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: 168 of 376 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 3-Cheese Ravioli; Agnolotti to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sweet Whey itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
168 of 376 linked records have some flagged component
All 376 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 Sweet Whey - usage rank #1,262
- Usage rank
- #1,262
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 376 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Sweet Whey in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 14.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Sweet Whey
Across the 376 products on this site that list Sweet 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.9x more often with Sweet Whey than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sweet Whey products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 40 | 10.6% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 37 | 9.8% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 36 | 9.6% | 0.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 33 | 8.8% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 32 | 8.5% | 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 Sweet Whey
Products Containing Sweet Whey
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 376 indexed products containing Sweet Whey:
High-volume peers for Sweet Whey beside “Tuna”
High-volume peers for Sweet Whey: 376 products, mean screening score 88.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Tuna; Soybean And Palm Oil With Tbhq For Freshness; Whey Permeate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Whey record
Start from Sweet Whey's 376 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sweet Whey and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Sweet Whey — common follow-ups
Does Sweet 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 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 Whey? ▼
Sweet Whey ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,262 of 247,206), appearing in 376 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sweet Whey so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweet Whey appears in 376 products (#1,262 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweet 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.