Foods With BHT
4,542 US grocery products in this catalogue list BHT on the label. 2,533 of them carry both a product name and a brand and can be listed by name.
4,542 US products list BHT (0.51% of 894,137)
BHT sits in the middle of the catalogue's frequency range, carried by 0.51% of the 894,137 US products recorded here. Among the 11 additives with a page here, BHT has the 8th-largest footprint, behind Titanium Dioxide (8,542 products) and ahead of Aspartame (3,611). Counts come from Open Food Facts labels joined in PlainFoodSafe; FDA SAFFA and CSPI status appear only when the registry record exists. This page reports label occurrence and attributed status, not whether anyone should eat the product.
- 0.51% catalogue share
- 2,533 named brand matches
- Trident largest brand footprint
BHT sits in the middle of the catalogue's frequency range, carried by 0.51% of the 894,137 US products recorded here. Among the 11 additives with a page here, BHT has the 8th-largest footprint, behind Titanium Dioxide (8,542 products) and ahead of Aspartame (3,611). The mean position on the ingredient list is 25, deep in the weight-ordered label, which is where trace-quantity additives are declared. Its closest companion on a label is BHA, which shows up on 43.7% of these labels against 0.7% of the catalogue at large, roughly 62 times its background rate, so the two are being formulated together rather than meeting by coincidence.
No state in our regulatory table records an action naming BHT. The FDA SAFFA record lists it as "GRAS". CSPI's Chemical Cuisine classification for it is "Caution", which is CSPI's rating, not PlainFoodSafe's.
Brands with the most products listing BHT
No single brand dominates: the largest, Trident, holds 2.9% of listable matches, and the fifteen below together cover 588, so this is a broad industry-wide ingredient rather than one company's formulation habit.
| Rank | Brand | Products listing BHT |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trident | 74 |
| 2 | Hormel | 57 |
| 3 | Totino's | 53 |
| 4 | Meijer | 42 |
| 5 | Banquet | 41 |
| 6 | Wrigley's | 39 |
| 7 | Red Baron | 37 |
| 8 | Kroger | 36 |
| 9 | Quaker | 36 |
| 10 | Great Value | 35 |
| 11 | Dubble Bubble | 34 |
| 12 | Jimmy Dean | 28 |
| 13 | Ice Breakers | 26 |
| 14 | Kellogg's | 26 |
| 15 | Mom Brands | 24 |
Where these products sit by category
By the label's own primary category, matches cluster hardest in Snacks (635 products, 25.1% of listable matches).
| Primary category (as labelled) | Products |
|---|---|
| Snacks | 635 |
| Meals | 409 |
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 327 |
| Meats and their products | 245 |
| Frozen foods | 93 |
| Condiments | 41 |
| Sandwiches | 24 |
| Baking-decorations | 17 |
| Cooking helpers | 10 |
| Dietary supplements | 9 |
What else is on the same labels
Share of BHT labels carrying each ingredient, next to that ingredient's share of the whole catalogue. A co-occurrence close to the baseline means the two simply meet by chance.
| Ingredient | On BHT labels | Catalogue baseline |
|---|---|---|
| BHA | 43.7% | 0.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 31.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 15.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 14.8% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 14.2% | 4.2% |
Named products listing BHT
Thirty of the 2,533 listable matches, ordered by how many flagged additives each label carries in total. Every row links to that product's own record.
Methodology
Matches come from the parsed ingredient links in the PlainFoodSafe database: a product counts here when its OpenFoodFacts ingredient list resolves to the BHT record. The headline 4,542 is every matching product in the catalogue; the 2,533 listable figure is the subset that also carries a usable product name and brand, which is what the tables above can show by name. Regulatory status is read from the FDA SAFFA extract and the state-action table; the rating word is CSPI's own classification. See the full methodology for how the catalogue is built and dated. The additive status we quote is the FDA's own, so read it at the source: Verify with FDA Substances Added to Food → Source: OpenFoodFacts, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Caveats and limitations
OpenFoodFacts is crowdsourced, so coverage varies by category and brand and a label recorded here may be out of date relative to the product on the shelf today, because reformulation is common and this catalogue reflects the snapshot it was built from, not a live audit of packaging. Ingredient parsing normalises label spellings and can miss unusual ones, so treat the counts as a floor rather than a census. Presence on a label says nothing about quantity, and nothing on this page is a statement about whether any product is safe for any particular person to eat; for that, read the BHT source record and the named regulators directly.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every count on this page is computed from the parsed OpenFoodFacts ingredient links and the FDA/state source tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.