Glyceryl Caprylate
Glyceryl Caprylate appears in 16 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
Glyceryl Caprylate appears in 16 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.
- 16
- catalogued products
- #10,944
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
Glyceryl Caprylate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,944 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,944
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 16 parsed labels, slot 20.9 on average. Glyceryl Caprylate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Glyceryl Caprylate spans 6 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with Clear Zinc 20% Sunscreen; Coconut Gel; Crème Relipidante when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 15 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.
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 Glyceryl Caprylate
Products Containing Glyceryl Caprylate
16 busy labels from the 16 indexed products that list Glyceryl Caprylate:
High-volume peers for Glyceryl Caprylate
Glyceryl Caprylate sits among other busy catalog rows (16 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Glyceryl Caprylate page
Start from Glyceryl Caprylate's 16 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Glyceryl Caprylate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Glyceryl Caprylate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Glyceryl Caprylate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,944 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Glyceryl Caprylate? ▼
Glyceryl Caprylate ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Glyceryl Caprylate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Glyceryl Caprylate appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Glyceryl Caprylate). 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.