Calcium Stearate
Calcium Stearate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,200 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Stearate appears in 1,200 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.
- 1,200
- catalogued products
- #595
- usage rank of 247,206
- 289
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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.
Calcium Stearate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#595 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #595
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Mean relative depth 57% across 1,200 parsed labels, slot 15.3 on average. Calcium Stearate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
58.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Calcium Stearate as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Beef Corn Dogs; 100% beef corn dogs; 100% Lactose Free Ice Cream and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 57% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
58.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1169 of 1197 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 Calcium Stearate
Across the 1,200 products on this site that list Calcium Stearate, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 6.8x more often with Calcium Stearate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Stearate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 391 | 32.6% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 329 | 27.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 279 | 23.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 262 | 21.8% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 246 | 20.5% | 2.1% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Calcium Stearate
Products Containing Calcium Stearate
16 busy labels from the 1,200 indexed products that list Calcium Stearate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cheese”)
High-volume peers for Calcium Stearate: 1,200 products, mean screening score 67.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cheese · Turkey · Soy Oil. 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.
What to do with this Calcium Stearate record
1,200 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Calcium Stearate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Calcium Stearate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Calcium Stearate with a peer such as “Cheese” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Calcium Stearate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Calcium Stearate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
58.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Calcium Stearate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Calcium Stearate 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 Calcium Stearate? ▼
Calcium Stearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#595 of 247,206), appearing in 1,200 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Calcium Stearate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Calcium Stearate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, stabilizer or thickener 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 (Calcium Stearate). 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.