As Retinyl Palmitate

As Retinyl Palmitate appears in 25 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

As Retinyl Palmitate appears in 25 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.

25
catalogued products
#8,001
usage rank of 247,206
18
named brands represented
23%
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.

As Retinyl Palmitate: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,001 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#8,001
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
23%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 25 products listing it (mean slot 8.2). As Retinyl Palmitate usually falls near the top 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: As Retinyl Palmitate spans 18 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Bee Up Tropical Mix; Biotin Builder Gummies; GRUNS when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

18 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 25 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 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 As Retinyl Palmitate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing As Retinyl Palmitate
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

High-volume peers for As Retinyl Palmitate: 25 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the As Retinyl Palmitate page

Start from As Retinyl Palmitate's 25 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing As Retinyl Palmitate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about As Retinyl Palmitate

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on As Retinyl Palmitate?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to As Retinyl Palmitate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with As Retinyl Palmitate?

As Retinyl Palmitate ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is As Retinyl Palmitate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet As Retinyl Palmitate appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (As Retinyl Palmitate). 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.