White Coating
White Coating appears in 176 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
White Coating appears in 176 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.
- 176
- catalogued products
- #2,113
- usage rank of 247,206
- 57
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify White Coating as the trigger. Open records such as Affy Tapple, Pretzel Bites White Chocolate Covered; Affy Tapple, White Chocolate Cinnamon Caramel Apple; Almond Brag Fingers and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 37% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 174 of 174 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
White Coating: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,113 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,113
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 176 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Averaged label depth puts White Coating in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 13.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 White Coating
Across the 176 products on this site that list White Coating, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 15.7x more often with White Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of White Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 58 | 33% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 42 | 23.9% | 5.4% |
| Red 3 | 31 | 17.6% | 1.1% |
| Blue 1 | 30 | 17% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 29 | 16.5% | 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 White Coating
Products Containing White Coating
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 176 indexed products containing White Coating:
High-volume peers for White Coating beside “Black Pepper Powder”
White Coating sits among other busy catalog rows (176 products, mean score 74.6/100). Nearest count peers include “Black Pepper Powder”, “Dough”, “Or Less Of Leavening”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the White Coating evidence
176 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on White Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing White Coating before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare White Coating with a peer such as “Black Pepper Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about White Coating
How should I read safety signals when White Coating sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming White Coating is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Coating? ▼
White Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,113 of 247,206), appearing in 176 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Coating appears in 176 products (#2,113 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Coating). 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.