Ethyl Alcohol
Ethyl Alcohol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 815 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ethyl Alcohol appears in 815 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.
- 815
- catalogued products
- #758
- usage rank of 247,206
- 243
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Alcohol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#758 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #758
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Averaged label depth puts Ethyl Alcohol in the lower half of the list (73% of list length, mean slot 26.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 345 of 815 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Calorie Protein Snack; 100 Calorie Protein Snack Bar; 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ethyl Alcohol 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.
345 of 815 linked records have some flagged component
All 802 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ethyl Alcohol
Across the 815 products on this site that list Ethyl Alcohol, 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 3.4x more often with Ethyl Alcohol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ethyl Alcohol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 157 | 19.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 100 | 12.3% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 88 | 10.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 85 | 10.4% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 71 | 8.7% | 1.4% |
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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
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 Ethyl Alcohol
Products Containing Ethyl Alcohol
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 815 indexed products containing Ethyl Alcohol:
High-volume peers for Ethyl Alcohol beside “Organic Pasta”
High-volume peers for Ethyl Alcohol: 815 products, mean screening score 86.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Pasta”, “Artificial Flavoring”, “Including Dill”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Ethyl Alcohol page
815 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ethyl Alcohol are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ethyl Alcohol to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Ethyl Alcohol with a peer such as “Organic Pasta” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Ethyl Alcohol carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ethyl Alcohol itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Ethyl Alcohol? ▼
Ethyl Alcohol ranks in the top decile by product count (#758 of 247,206), appearing in 815 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ethyl Alcohol do in food? ▼
Ethyl Alcohol is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, processing aid, solvent or vehicle in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ethyl Alcohol). 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.