Butterfat
Butterfat appears in 918 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
Butterfat appears in 918 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.
- 918
- catalogued products
- #705
- usage rank of 247,206
- 254
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 203 of 918 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 57% Cacao Premium Belgian Dark Chocolate; 6 Brioche Hot Dog Rolls; 60 % Cacao Dark Bittersweet Chocolate Drops to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Butterfat itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
203 of 918 linked records have some flagged component
All 911 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.
Butterfat: top-decile catalog footprint (#705 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #705
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 918 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Mean relative depth 48% across 918 parsed labels, slot 11.7 on average. Butterfat tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Butterfat
Across the 918 products on this site that list Butterfat, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.2x more often with Butterfat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Butterfat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 92 | 10% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 63 | 6.9% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 28 | 3.1% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 27 | 2.9% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 25 | 2.7% | 1.4% |
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 Butterfat
Products Containing Butterfat
16 busy labels from the 918 indexed products that list Butterfat:
High-volume peers for Butterfat beside “Semisweet Chocolate”
Top-decile company for Butterfat: 918 listings averaging 95.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Semisweet Chocolate; Durum Wheat Flour; Chili.
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 Butterfat page
918 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Butterfat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Butterfat to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Butterfat next to “Durum Wheat Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Butterfat
Does Butterfat carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Butterfat. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Butterfat? ▼
Butterfat ranks in the top decile by product count (#705 of 247,206), appearing in 918 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Butterfat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Butterfat appears in 918 products (#705 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Butterfat). 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.