E500ii
E500ii appears in 21 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
E500ii appears in 21 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.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- 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 E500ii - usage rank #9,037
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 21 parsed labels, slot 18.4 on average. E500ii tends to sit in the lower 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: E500ii spans 12 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with A delicious baked cheesecake on a chocolate biscuit base topped with toblerone's smooth milk chocolate; Alfajores Merengue Clásico; Dulce de leche when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 20 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 E500ii
Products Containing E500ii
High-volume slice (16 of 21) for products naming E500ii:
E500ii vs other top-decile catalog footprints
E500ii sits among other busy catalog rows (21 products, mean score 97.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the E500ii evidence
Start from E500ii's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for E500ii and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on E500ii? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to E500ii, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with E500ii? ▼
E500ii ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is E500ii so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet E500ii appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (E500ii). 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.