White Confectionery Coating
White Confectionery Coating appears in 99 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 Confectionery Coating appears in 99 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.
- 99
- catalogued products
- #3,153
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50.5% 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 Confectionery Coating as the trigger. Open records such as alani nu protein bar rocky road; Biscotti; Biscotti Brothers, Biscotti Cookies, Chocolate Dipped Almond and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 30% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 99 of 99 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 Confectionery Coating sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,153 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,153
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 99 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Averaged label depth puts White Confectionery Coating in the upper half of the list (30% of list length, mean slot 12.3). 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 White Confectionery Coating
Across the 99 products on this site that list White Confectionery 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 15.4x more often with White Confectionery Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of White Confectionery Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 32 | 32.3% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 27 | 27.3% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 24 | 24.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 18 | 18.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 17 | 17.2% | 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 White Confectionery Coating
Products Containing White Confectionery Coating
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 99 indexed products containing White Confectionery Coating:
High-volume peers for White Confectionery Coating beside “Blanched Almonds”
Top-decile company for White Confectionery Coating: 99 listings averaging 71/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Blanched Almonds; Cantaloupe; Caramel Powder.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the White Confectionery Coating evidence
99 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on White Confectionery Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing White Confectionery Coating before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place White Confectionery Coating next to “Cantaloupe” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Confectionery Coating
How should I read safety signals when White Confectionery Coating sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.5% 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 Confectionery 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 Confectionery Coating? ▼
White Confectionery Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,153 of 247,206), appearing in 99 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Confectionery Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Confectionery Coating appears in 99 products (#3,153 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Confectionery 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.