Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 48 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose appears in 48 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.
- 48
- catalogued products
- #5,109
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- 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.
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,109 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,109
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 48 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Hydroxypropyl Cellulose in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 14.7). 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 20 of 48 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0016500579793; Ageless Male MAX; Alive! Women's 50+ Complete Multivitamin to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Hydroxypropyl Cellulose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
20 of 48 linked records have some flagged component
All 48 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Across the 48 products on this site that list Hydroxypropyl Cellulose, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 9.9x more often with Hydroxypropyl Cellulose than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 20.8% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 9 | 18.8% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 16.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 7 | 14.6% | 3.4% |
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, FORMULATION AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, 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 Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Products Containing Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
16 busy labels from the 48 indexed products that list Hydroxypropyl Cellulose:
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Hydroxypropyl Cellulose: 48 listings averaging 82.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hydroxypropyl Cellulose evidence
Use the 48-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Hydroxypropyl Cellulose before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hydroxypropyl Cellulose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Hydroxypropyl Cellulose 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 Hydroxypropyl Cellulose? ▼
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,109 of 247,206), appearing in 48 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Hydroxypropyl Cellulose do in food? ▼
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydroxypropyl Cellulose). 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.