Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Hydrogenated Castor Oil appears in 24 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
Hydrogenated Castor Oil appears in 24 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.
- 24
- catalogued products
- #8,251
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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 Hydrogenated Castor Oil - usage rank #8,251
- Usage rank
- #8,251
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 24 products listing it (mean slot 8.0). Hydrogenated Castor Oil usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Hydrogenated Castor Oil spans 13 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with Arm & Hammer Ultra Max; Castor Oil; Castor Oil when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 19 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Products Containing Hydrogenated Castor Oil
High-volume slice (16 of 24) for products naming Hydrogenated Castor Oil:
Hydrogenated Castor Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Hydrogenated Castor Oil: 24 products, mean screening score 97.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Hydrogenated Castor Oil record
24 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Hydrogenated Castor Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Hydrogenated Castor Oil and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Hydrogenated Castor Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Hydrogenated Castor Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,251 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrogenated Castor Oil? ▼
Hydrogenated Castor Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hydrogenated Castor Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydrogenated Castor Oil appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrogenated Castor 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.