Ascorbyl Palmitate
Ascorbyl Palmitate carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 454 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Ascorbyl Palmitate appears in 454 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 454
- catalogued products
- #1,100
- usage rank of 247,206
- 147
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
Ascorbyl Palmitate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,100 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,100
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 454 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 454 products listing it (mean slot 22.4). Ascorbyl Palmitate usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 157 of 454 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A2 Organic Infant Formula; A2 Whole Milk Toddler Formula; Advantage infant formula milk based powder with iron to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ascorbyl Palmitate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
157 of 454 linked records have some flagged component
All 449 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Ascorbyl Palmitate
Across the 454 products on this site that list Ascorbyl Palmitate, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 2.5x more often with Ascorbyl Palmitate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ascorbyl Palmitate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 54 | 11.9% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 50 | 11% | 3.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 46 | 10.1% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 43 | 9.5% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 40 | 8.8% | 5.7% |
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
ANTIOXIDANT
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 Ascorbyl Palmitate
Products Containing Ascorbyl Palmitate
High-volume slice (16 of 454) for products naming Ascorbyl Palmitate:
High-volume peers for Ascorbyl Palmitate beside “Parmesan”
Ascorbyl Palmitate sits among other busy catalog rows (454 products, mean score 85.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Parmesan · Organic Coconut Flour · Lentils. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Ascorbyl Palmitate page
454 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ascorbyl Palmitate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Ascorbyl Palmitate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Ascorbyl Palmitate with a peer such as “Parmesan” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ascorbyl Palmitate — common follow-ups
Does Ascorbyl Palmitate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ascorbyl Palmitate itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ascorbyl Palmitate? ▼
Ascorbyl Palmitate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,100 of 247,206), appearing in 454 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ascorbyl Palmitate do in food? ▼
Ascorbyl Palmitate is recorded as a antioxidant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ascorbyl 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.