Whey Powder
Whey Powder appears in 5,170 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
Whey Powder appears in 5,170 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.
- 5,170
- catalogued products
- #207
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,257
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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: 1793 of 5170 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Natural Granola, Vanilla Almond; 12 S'Mores Flavored Cakes, 12 S'Mores; 2 Toffee Cream Meringues to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Whey Powder itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1793 of 5,170 linked records have some flagged component
All 5170 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 Whey Powder - usage rank #207
- Usage rank
- #207
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5,171 products listing it (mean slot 15.5). Whey Powder usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Whey Powder
Across the 5,170 products on this site that list Whey Powder, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2x more often with Whey Powder than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whey Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 551 | 10.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 538 | 10.4% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 487 | 9.4% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 483 | 9.3% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 480 | 9.3% | 3.4% |
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 Whey Powder
Products Containing Whey Powder
16 busy labels from the 5,170 indexed products that list Whey Powder:
High-volume peers for Whey Powder beside “Cottonseed Oil”
Top-decile company for Whey Powder: 5,170 listings averaging 85.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cottonseed Oil · Apples · Carob Bean Gum.
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 Whey Powder record
Start from Whey Powder's 5,170 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Whey Powder to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Whey Powder next to “Apples” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Whey Powder
Does Whey Powder 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 Whey Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whey Powder? ▼
Whey Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#207 of 247,206), appearing in 5,170 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whey Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whey Powder appears in 5,170 products (#207 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whey Powder). 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.