Hydroxycitronellal
Hydroxycitronellal carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 14 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Hydroxycitronellal appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
Hydroxycitronellal: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,996 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Averaged label depth puts Hydroxycitronellal near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 27.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 14 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Brooklyn Bombshell Blowout Spray; daily cleanser; Extra Hold Hairspray to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Hydroxycitronellal itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Hair-spray supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4 of 14 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 14 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 Hydroxycitronellal
Products Containing Hydroxycitronellal
High-volume slice (14 of 14) for products naming Hydroxycitronellal:
Hydroxycitronellal vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Hydroxycitronellal: 14 listings averaging 81.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Hydroxycitronellal record
Use the 14-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Hydroxycitronellal before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hydroxycitronellal carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Hydroxycitronellal itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydroxycitronellal? ▼
Hydroxycitronellal ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Hair-spray. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Hydroxycitronellal do in food? ▼
Hydroxycitronellal is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydroxycitronellal). 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.