Brominated Soybean Oil
Brominated Soybean Oil appears in 83 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
Brominated Soybean Oil appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 29
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
79.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Brominated Soybean Oil as the trigger. Open records such as Artica, Sparkling Sorbet, Sparkling Beverage, Lemon Lime; Beer; Burgh, Iced-Tea Lemonade and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 65.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 82% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
79.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 83 of 83 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.
Brominated Soybean Oil: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,577 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Averaged label depth puts Brominated Soybean Oil near the end of the captured list (82% of list length, mean slot 12.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Brominated Soybean Oil
Across the 83 products on this site that list Brominated Soybean Oil, 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 7.8x more often with Brominated Soybean Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Brominated Soybean Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 35 | 42.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 35 | 42.2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 19 | 22.9% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 12% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 9 | 10.8% | 1.8% |
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.
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 Brominated Soybean Oil
Products Containing Brominated Soybean Oil
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 83 indexed products containing Brominated Soybean Oil:
High-volume peers for Brominated Soybean Oil beside “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”
Brominated Soybean Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (83 products, mean score 65.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3 · Blue 1 & 2 · Canola Oil With Tbhq For Freshness. 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 Brominated Soybean Oil page
83 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Brominated Soybean Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Brominated Soybean Oil 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. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Brominated Soybean Oil
How should I read safety signals when Brominated Soybean Oil sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
79.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Brominated Soybean Oil is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Brominated Soybean Oil? ▼
Brominated Soybean Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Brominated Soybean Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brominated Soybean Oil appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brominated Soybean 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.