Baking Oil

Baking Oil appears in 23 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

Baking Oil appears in 23 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.

23
catalogued products
#8,512
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
28%
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.

Baking Oil: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,512 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#8,512
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
28%
Averaged label depth puts Baking Oil in the upper half of the list (28% of list length, mean slot 6.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 13% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Baking Oil spans 4 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Chocolate Chip; Chocolate chip; Chocolate chip cookies when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

4 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 21 of 23 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 Baking Oil

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Baking Oil
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.

High-volume peers for Baking Oil

Top-decile company for Baking Oil: 23 listings averaging 99.3/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Baking Oil evidence

Start from Baking Oil's 23 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Baking Oil to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Baking Oil?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Baking Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,512 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Baking Oil?

Baking Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Baking Oil so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Baking Oil appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Baking Oil). 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.