Cottonseed Oil
Cottonseed Oil appears in 5,153 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
Cottonseed Oil appears in 5,153 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.
- 5,153
- catalogued products
- #206
- usage rank of 247,206
- 995
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2010 of 5153 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1/2 Marble Grad Cake With Red Borders; 100% real ice cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cottonseed Oil 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.
2010 of 5,153 linked records have some flagged component
All 5065 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.
High-volume listing for Cottonseed Oil - usage rank #206
- Usage rank
- #206
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5,190 products listing it (mean slot 13.6). Cottonseed 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cottonseed Oil
Across the 5,153 products on this site that list Cottonseed 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 2.3x more often with Cottonseed Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cottonseed Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 632 | 12.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 632 | 12.3% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 569 | 11% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 557 | 10.8% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 536 | 10.4% | 4.5% |
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 Cottonseed Oil
Products Containing Cottonseed Oil
16 busy labels from the 5,153 indexed products that list Cottonseed Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Whey Powder”)
Cottonseed Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (5,153 products, mean score 84.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Whey Powder · Sorbitol · Apples. 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 Cottonseed Oil page
5,153 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cottonseed Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cottonseed Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Cottonseed Oil with a peer such as “Whey Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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 Cottonseed Oil
Does Cottonseed Oil 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 Cottonseed Oil. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cottonseed Oil? ▼
Cottonseed Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#206 of 247,206), appearing in 5,153 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cottonseed Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cottonseed Oil appears in 5,153 products (#206 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cottonseed 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.