Benzyl Alcohol
Benzyl Alcohol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 127 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Benzyl Alcohol appears in 127 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 127
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 51
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Benzyl Alcohol - usage rank #2,653
- Usage rank
- #2,653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 127 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Averaged label depth puts Benzyl Alcohol in the lower half of the list (75% of list length, mean slot 21.4). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
58.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Benzyl Alcohol as the trigger. Open records such as 3in1 Kids Soap; 3in1 Soap; Autumn Air & Amber Moisturizing Lotion and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 75% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
58.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 119 of 120 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 Benzyl Alcohol
Across the 127 products on this site that list Benzyl Alcohol, 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 6.9x more often with Benzyl Alcohol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Benzyl Alcohol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 47 | 37% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 27 | 21.3% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 21 | 16.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 15 | 11.8% | 3.4% |
| Aspartame | 14 | 11% | 0.9% |
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, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
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 Benzyl Alcohol
Products Containing Benzyl Alcohol
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 127 indexed products containing Benzyl Alcohol:
Benzyl Alcohol vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Benzyl Alcohol sits among other busy catalog rows (127 products, mean score 74.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: As Ascorbic Acid · Bacon Flavor · Beet Sugar. 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.
What to do with this Benzyl Alcohol record
Use the 127-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Benzyl Alcohol and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Benzyl Alcohol with a peer such as “As Ascorbic Acid” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Benzyl Alcohol
How should I read safety signals when Benzyl Alcohol sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
58.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Benzyl Alcohol is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Benzyl Alcohol scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Benzyl Alcohol? ▼
Benzyl Alcohol ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 127 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Benzyl Alcohol serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Benzyl Alcohol is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, solvent or vehicle 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 (Benzyl Alcohol). 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.