Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin
Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin appears in 97 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
Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin appears in 97 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.
- 97
- catalogued products
- #3,198
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
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 Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin as the trigger. Open records such as 7-eleven, fresh togo holiday sugar cookie; 8 sub buns; Ahold, flavored popcorn, white cheddar cheese and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 82% 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 97 of 97 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.
High-volume listing for Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin - usage rank #3,198
- Usage rank
- #3,198
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 97 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Averaged label depth puts Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin near the end of the captured list (82% of list length, mean slot 21.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin
Across the 97 products on this site that list Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin, 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 4.6x more often with Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 24 | 24.7% | 5.4% |
| Aspartame | 20 | 20.6% | 0.9% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 19 | 19.6% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 17 | 17.5% | 4.2% |
| BHT | 17 | 17.5% | 1.1% |
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.
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 Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin
Products Containing Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 97 indexed products containing Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin:
Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin: 97 listings averaging 67.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Added As An Emulsifier”, “Natural And Processed With Alkali”, “As Niacinamide”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin page
Use the 97-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin 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 Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin? ▼
Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,198 of 247,206), appearing in 97 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin appears in 97 products (#3,198 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin). 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.