Tapioca Maltodextrin
Tapioca Maltodextrin appears in 800 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
Tapioca Maltodextrin appears in 800 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.
- 800
- catalogued products
- #761
- usage rank of 247,206
- 283
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Tapioca Maltodextrin: top-decile catalog footprint (#761 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #761
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Tapioca Maltodextrin in the upper half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 14.2). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tapioca Maltodextrin spans 283 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Aged popcorn chips; Aged white cheddar lentil chips; AGED WHITE CHEDDAR MINI RICE CAKES when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
283 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 800 of 800 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Tapioca Maltodextrin
Across the 800 products on this site that list Tapioca Maltodextrin, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tapioca Maltodextrin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 68 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 52 | 6.5% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 22 | 2.8% | 2.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 14 | 1.8% | 0.5% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 1.6% | 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 Tapioca Maltodextrin
Products Containing Tapioca Maltodextrin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 800 indexed products containing Tapioca Maltodextrin:
High-volume peers for Tapioca Maltodextrin beside “Enriched Unbleached Wheat Flour”
Top-decile company for Tapioca Maltodextrin: 800 listings averaging 97.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Enriched Unbleached Wheat Flour”, “Enriched Unbleached Flour”, “Provolone Cheese”.
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 Tapioca Maltodextrin page
Start from Tapioca Maltodextrin's 800 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Tapioca Maltodextrin and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Tapioca Maltodextrin next to “Enriched Unbleached Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Tapioca Maltodextrin
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tapioca Maltodextrin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tapioca Maltodextrin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#761 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tapioca Maltodextrin? ▼
Tapioca Maltodextrin ranks in the top decile by product count (#761 of 247,206), appearing in 800 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tapioca Maltodextrin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tapioca Maltodextrin appears in 800 products (#761 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tapioca 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.