Whitening Agent
Whitening Agent appears in 9 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
Whitening Agent appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 100%
- 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.
Whitening Agent sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#16,390 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 100%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9 products listing it (mean slot 9.8). Whitening Agent usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whitening Agent spans 2 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Boiled Baby Clams; Boiled baby clams almejitas; Fancy Pink Crab Meat when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
2 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 9 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 9 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 Whitening Agent
Products Containing Whitening Agent
A sample of 9 high-volume listings among the 9 indexed products containing Whitening Agent:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Whitening Agent: 9 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. 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.
Using the Whitening Agent evidence
9 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Whitening Agent are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Whitening Agent and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Whitening Agent — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whitening Agent? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whitening Agent, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#16,390 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whitening Agent? ▼
Whitening Agent ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whitening Agent so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whitening Agent appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whitening Agent). 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.