Fully Refined Soybean Oil

Fully Refined Soybean Oil appears in 178 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

Fully Refined Soybean Oil appears in 178 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.

178
catalogued products
#2,094
usage rank of 247,206
53
named brands represented
51%
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: 79 of 178 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% whole wheat multi-grain; 6\fajitaflourtortillas; Alessi bakeries, red velvet cupcakes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Fully Refined Soybean Oil itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Sandwiches supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

79 of 178 linked records have some flagged component

All 174 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.

Fully Refined Soybean Oil: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,094 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,094
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 178 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Averaged label depth puts Fully Refined Soybean Oil in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 19.3). 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 else is usually in the same product as Fully Refined Soybean Oil

Across the 178 products on this site that list Fully Refined Soybean Oil, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 7x more often with Fully Refined Soybean Oil than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +14.5ppSodium Nitrite+14.5ppCaramel Coloring: +11.2ppCaramel Coloring+11.2ppYellow 5: +4.8ppYellow 5+4.8ppYellow 6: +5ppYellow 6+5ppBHA: +7.2ppBHA+7.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Fully Refined Soybean Oil products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
14.5pp
Caramel Coloring
11.2pp
Yellow 5
4.8pp
Yellow 6
5pp
BHA
7.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Fully Refined Soybean Oil products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 30 16.9% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 30 16.9% 5.7%
Yellow 5 17 9.6% 4.8%
Yellow 6 15 8.4% 3.4%
BHA 14 7.9% 0.7%

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 Fully Refined Soybean Oil

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fully Refined Soybean Oil
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bleached Wheat Flour Enriched”)

Fully Refined Soybean Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (178 products, mean score 85.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bleached Wheat Flour Enriched · Blue #2 · Concord Grape Juice. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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.

Using the Fully Refined Soybean Oil evidence

Start from Fully Refined Soybean Oil's 178 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Fully Refined Soybean Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Fully Refined Soybean Oil next to “Blue #2” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Fully Refined Soybean Oil — common follow-ups

Does Fully Refined Soybean Oil 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 Fully Refined Soybean Oil. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Fully Refined Soybean Oil?

Fully Refined Soybean Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,094 of 247,206), appearing in 178 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Fully Refined Soybean Oil so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fully Refined Soybean Oil appears in 178 products (#2,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fully Refined Soybean Oil). 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.