Ethyl Acetate
Ethyl Acetate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 5 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ethyl Acetate appears in 5 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
Ethyl Acetate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#24,708 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 5 parsed labels, slot 12.6 on average. Ethyl Acetate tends to sit in the upper 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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ethyl Acetate as the trigger. Open records such as Cantabilr Green Grape Falvored Ade; Kroger, drink mix, peach mango; Assorted berries and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 59.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 38% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 5 of 5 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Ethyl Acetate
Products Containing Ethyl Acetate
5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Ethyl Acetate:
High-volume peers for Ethyl Acetate
Top-decile company for Ethyl Acetate: 5 listings averaging 59/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Ethyl Acetate record
Start from Ethyl Acetate's 5 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ethyl Acetate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Ethyl Acetate
How should I read safety signals when Ethyl Acetate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ethyl Acetate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Ethyl Acetate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ethyl Acetate? ▼
Ethyl Acetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Ethyl Acetate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Ethyl Acetate is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, solvent or vehicle in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ethyl Acetate). 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.