Gelatin
Gelatin carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 9,473 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Gelatin appears in 9,473 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 9,473
- catalogued products
- #127
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,387
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Gelatin: top-decile catalog footprint (#127 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #127
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9,473 products listing it (mean slot 10.2). Gelatin usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
63.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Gelatin as the trigger. Open records such as 0016500579793; 1 Wow!, Lollipop Bouquet; 1000mg Alaskan Fish Oil Mini and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 64.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 39% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
63.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 9471 of 9471 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Gelatin
Across the 9,473 products on this site that list Gelatin, 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. Red 40 shows up about 6.9x more often with Gelatin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gelatin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 3,533 | 37.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 3,218 | 34% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 2,883 | 30.4% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,922 | 20.3% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 1,215 | 12.8% | 2.1% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Gelatin
Products Containing Gelatin
High-volume slice (16 of 9,473) for products naming Gelatin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Mono And Diglycerides”)
Top-decile company for Gelatin: 9,473 listings averaging 64.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Mono And Diglycerides”, “Palm Kernel Oil”, “Flavoring”.
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.
Next steps from the Gelatin page
9,473 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Gelatin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Gelatin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Gelatin with a peer such as “Mono And Diglycerides” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Gelatin
How should I read safety signals when Gelatin sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
63.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Gelatin is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Gelatin scores 5/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Safe" 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 Gelatin? ▼
Gelatin ranks in the top decile by product count (#127 of 247,206), appearing in 9,473 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Gelatin serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Gelatin is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, humectant, processing aid, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, surface-finishing agent, texturizer 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 (Gelatin). 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.