Ethoxyquin
Ethoxyquin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 83 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ethoxyquin appears in 83 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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 Ethoxyquin - usage rank #3,577
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 83%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 83 products listing it (mean slot 32.9). Ethoxyquin usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 33 of 83 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A Cajun Life, All Purpose Cajun Seasoning; Baby back pork ribs; Birria to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Ethoxyquin itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
33 of 83 linked records have some flagged component
All 77 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ethoxyquin
Across the 83 products on this site that list Ethoxyquin, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.2x more often with Ethoxyquin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ethoxyquin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 20 | 24.1% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Bromate | 8 | 9.6% | 0.1% |
| TBHQ | 8 | 9.6% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 6% | 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.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT
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 Ethoxyquin
Products Containing Ethoxyquin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 83 indexed products containing Ethoxyquin:
Ethoxyquin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Ethoxyquin: 83 products, mean screening score 92.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”, “Blue 1 & 2”, “Brominated Soybean Oil”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Ethoxyquin record
Use the 83-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ethoxyquin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Ethoxyquin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ethoxyquin itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ethoxyquin? ▼
Ethoxyquin ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ethoxyquin do in food? ▼
Ethoxyquin is recorded as a antioxidant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ethoxyquin). 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.