Glyceryl Monostearate
Glyceryl Monostearate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 318 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Glyceryl Monostearate appears in 318 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.
- 318
- catalogued products
- #1,423
- usage rank of 247,206
- 67
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Glyceryl Monostearate - usage rank #1,423
- Usage rank
- #1,423
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 319 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 319 products listing it (mean slot 13.6). Glyceryl Monostearate 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
70.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Glyceryl Monostearate as the trigger. Open records such as Arctic Frozen Flurry, Green Glacier, Arctic Avalanche, Polar Plunge Flavored Candy Straws, Arctic; Artificially Flavored Candy; Assorted Fruit Flavors, Artificially Flavored and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 62.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
70.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 318 of 318 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 Glyceryl Monostearate
Across the 318 products on this site that list Glyceryl Monostearate, 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 7.4x more often with Glyceryl Monostearate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Glyceryl Monostearate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 127 | 39.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 111 | 34.9% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 97 | 30.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 64 | 20.1% | 3.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 52 | 16.4% | 5.7% |
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.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, 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 Glyceryl Monostearate
Products Containing Glyceryl Monostearate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 318 indexed products containing Glyceryl Monostearate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Banana Chips”)
High-volume peers for Glyceryl Monostearate: 318 products, mean screening score 62.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Banana Chips; Buckwheat Flour; Quot. 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 Glyceryl Monostearate page
318 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Glyceryl Monostearate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Glyceryl Monostearate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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 Glyceryl Monostearate
How should I read safety signals when Glyceryl Monostearate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
70.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Glyceryl Monostearate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Glyceryl Monostearate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale 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 Glyceryl Monostearate? ▼
Glyceryl Monostearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,423 of 247,206), appearing in 318 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Glyceryl Monostearate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Glyceryl Monostearate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, firming agent, flavor enhancer, lubricant or release agent, masticatory substance, 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 (Glyceryl Monostearate). 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.