Fatty Acids
Fatty Acids carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 11 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Fatty Acids appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- 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.
Fatty Acids sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#14,190 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11 products listing it (mean slot 17.2). Fatty Acids 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Fatty Acids spans 5 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Essential For Women Multivitamin 18+; Liposomal Vitamin C; Prenatal Multivitamin when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 11 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
Function
FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Fatty Acids
Products Containing Fatty Acids
High-volume slice (11 of 11) for products naming Fatty Acids:
Fatty Acids vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Fatty Acids sits among other busy catalog rows (11 products, mean score 92.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Fatty Acids page
11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Fatty Acids are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Fatty Acids to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Fatty Acids — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Fatty Acids? ▼
Fatty Acids has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 18.2% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fatty Acids? ▼
Fatty Acids ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Fatty Acids do in food? ▼
Fatty Acids is recorded as a formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, surface-active agent, surface-finishing agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fatty Acids). 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.