Emulsifiers
Emulsifiers appears in 1,877 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
Emulsifiers appears in 1,877 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.
- 1,877
- catalogued products
- #423
- usage rank of 247,206
- 426
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 450 of 1877 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Marble Grad Cake With Red Borders; 100% Pure Whey With Grass Fed Whey Isolates Vanilla Cream Slice Flavour; 100% Whey Protein to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Emulsifiers 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.
450 of 1,877 linked records have some flagged component
All 1876 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.
Emulsifiers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#423 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #423
- 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
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,877 products listing it (mean slot 15.6). Emulsifiers usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Emulsifiers
Across the 1,877 products on this site that list Emulsifiers, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 8.2x more often with Emulsifiers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Emulsifiers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 215 | 11.5% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 172 | 9.2% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 169 | 9% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 153 | 8.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 117 | 6.2% | 3.4% |
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 Emulsifiers
Products Containing Emulsifiers
High-volume slice (16 of 1,877) for products naming Emulsifiers:
Emulsifiers vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Emulsifiers: 1,877 listings averaging 90/100. Nearest count peers include “Soluble Corn Fiber”, “L. Bulgaricus”, “Yellow #5”.
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 Emulsifiers record
1,877 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Emulsifiers are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Emulsifiers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Emulsifiers next to “L. Bulgaricus” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Emulsifiers 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 Emulsifiers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Emulsifiers? ▼
Emulsifiers ranks in the top decile by product count (#423 of 247,206), appearing in 1,877 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Emulsifiers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Emulsifiers appears in 1,877 products (#423 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Emulsifiers). 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.