Xylitol
Xylitol carries a source-backed screening score of 4/5 and appears in 914 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.”
Source-backed answer
Xylitol appears in 914 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.” Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 914
- catalogued products
- #709
- usage rank of 247,206
- 177
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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.
Xylitol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#709 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #709
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 914 parsed labels, slot 4.3 on average. Xylitol tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Xylitol as the trigger. Open records such as Air heads blue raspberry gum; Airheads Blue Raspberry Gum; Airheads Gum, Watermelon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 20% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 913 of 913 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Xylitol
Across the 914 products on this site that list Xylitol, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 20x more often with Xylitol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Xylitol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 329 | 36% | 1.8% |
| Aspartame | 327 | 35.8% | 0.9% |
| BHT | 269 | 29.4% | 1.1% |
| Sucralose | 228 | 24.9% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 138 | 15.1% | 4.2% |
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.
Function
HUMECTANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
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 Xylitol
Products Containing Xylitol
High-volume slice (16 of 914) for products naming Xylitol:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Wine”)
Top-decile company for Xylitol: 914 listings averaging 70/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Wine · Lemon Juice From Concentrate · Magnesium Phosphate.
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.
What to do with this Xylitol record
Use the 914-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Xylitol and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Xylitol with a peer such as “Wine” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Xylitol — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Xylitol sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Xylitol is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Xylitol scores 4/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Cut Back" with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Xylitol? ▼
Xylitol ranks in the top decile by product count (#709 of 247,206), appearing in 914 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Xylitol serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Xylitol is recorded as a humectant, nutritive sweetener in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Xylitol). 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.