Beeswax
Beeswax carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,078 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Beeswax appears in 1,078 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. 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.
- 1,078
- catalogued products
- #634
- usage rank of 247,206
- 297
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Beeswax: top-decile catalog footprint (#634 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #634
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,078 products listing it (mean slot 15.7). Beeswax 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
72.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Beeswax as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Pure Raw & Unfiltered Honey & Comb; 49 Assorted Flavors Jelly Beans; 49 Flavors Jelly Beans and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 47.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 74% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1078 of 1078 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
What else is usually in the same product as Beeswax
Across the 1,078 products on this site that list Beeswax, 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. Red 40 shows up about 9.9x more often with Beeswax than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Beeswax products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 575 | 53.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 527 | 48.9% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 466 | 43.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 343 | 31.8% | 3.4% |
| Red 3 | 204 | 18.9% | 1.1% |
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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
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 Beeswax
Products Containing Beeswax
High-volume slice (16 of 1,078) for products naming Beeswax:
Beeswax vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Beeswax: 1,078 products, mean screening score 47.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Sodium Selenite”, “Microbial Enzymes”, “Almond Butter”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Beeswax page
1,078 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Beeswax are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Beeswax and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Beeswax
How should I read safety signals when Beeswax sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Beeswax is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Beeswax scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beeswax? ▼
Beeswax ranks in the top decile by product count (#634 of 247,206), appearing in 1,078 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Beeswax serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Beeswax is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, lubricant or release agent, surface-finishing agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beeswax). 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.