Calcium Laurate
Calcium Laurate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Laurate appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- 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.
High-volume listing for Calcium Laurate - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Laurate in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 10.7). 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 this page can and cannot answer
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Calcium Laurate reaches 3 named brands, most often appears under Dietary supplements, and typically sits in the lower half of the list. Product examples include Advanced Digestive Enzymes; B-complex #12; Glucosamine & Chondroitin. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (10 of 10), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Calcium Laurate
Products Containing Calcium Laurate
10 busy labels from the 10 indexed products that list Calcium Laurate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Calcium Laurate: 10 products, mean screening score 100/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Calcium Laurate record
10 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Calcium Laurate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Calcium Laurate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Calcium Laurate — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Calcium Laurate? ▼
Calcium Laurate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 0% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Calcium Laurate? ▼
Calcium Laurate ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Calcium Laurate do in food? ▼
Calcium Laurate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, lubricant or release agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Laurate). 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.