Acetate
Acetate appears in 91 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
Acetate appears in 91 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.
- 91
- catalogued products
- #3,352
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
Acetate: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,352 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,352
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 91 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 91 parsed labels, slot 20.4 on average. Acetate tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Acetate spans 55 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Almondmilk; Açaí Blueberry Pomegranate Flavored with other natural flavors Vitamin-enhanced Water Beverage; Banana Oatmeal when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
55 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 89 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Acetate
Across the 91 products on this site that list Acetate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 3.7x more often with Acetate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Acetate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 9 | 9.9% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 6 | 6.6% | 1.8% |
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 Acetate
Products Containing Acetate
High-volume slice (16 of 91) for products naming Acetate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “28g”)
Top-decile company for Acetate: 91 listings averaging 95.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 28g; 30g; Butter Toffee Peanuts.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Acetate record
91 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Acetate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Acetate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Acetate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Acetate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Acetate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,352 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acetate? ▼
Acetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,352 of 247,206), appearing in 91 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Acetate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acetate appears in 91 products (#3,352 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acetate). 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.