Emulsifer
Emulsifer appears in 36 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
Emulsifer appears in 36 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.
- 36
- catalogued products
- #6,225
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 11 of 36 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted Milk Chocolate Truffles, Assorted Milk Chocolate; Authentic belgian milk chocolate bar; Berkshire Bark, Tropical Heat Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Emulsifer itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
11 of 36 linked records have some flagged component
All 35 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.
Emulsifer: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,225 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,225
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Mean relative depth 59% across 36 parsed labels, slot 13.3 on average. Emulsifer 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 else is usually in the same product as Emulsifer
Across the 36 products on this site that list Emulsifer, 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 2.6x more often with Emulsifer than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Emulsifer products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 5 | 13.9% | 5.4% |
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 Emulsifer
Products Containing Emulsifer
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 36 indexed products containing Emulsifer:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Emulsifer: 36 products, mean screening score 85.3/100. 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 Emulsifer record
Use the 36-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Emulsifer before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Emulsifer — common follow-ups
Does Emulsifer 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 Emulsifer. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Emulsifer? ▼
Emulsifer ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Emulsifer so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Emulsifer appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Emulsifer). 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.