Total Carbohydrate

Total Carbohydrate appears in 21 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

Total Carbohydrate appears in 21 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.

21
catalogued products
#9,037
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
26%
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: 10 of 21 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare AG1 Tropical; Alpha Test; Bucked Up to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Total Carbohydrate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

10 of 21 linked records have some flagged component

All 15 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.

Total Carbohydrate: top-decile catalog footprint (#9,037 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#9,037
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
26%
Mean relative depth 26% across 21 parsed labels, slot 7.0 on average. Total Carbohydrate tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 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 Total Carbohydrate

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 020406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Total Carbohydrate
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.

Total Carbohydrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Total Carbohydrate: 21 products, mean screening score 85.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Total Carbohydrate record

Start from Total Carbohydrate's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

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

Questions readers ask about Total Carbohydrate

Does Total Carbohydrate 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 Total Carbohydrate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Total Carbohydrate?

Total Carbohydrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Total Carbohydrate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Total Carbohydrate appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Total Carbohydrate). 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.