Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening appears in 6 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

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening appears in 6 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.

6
catalogued products
#21,732
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
47%
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.

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#21,732 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#21,732
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
47%
Averaged label depth puts Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening in the upper half of the list (47% of list length, mean slot 9.5). 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening spans 3 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Holiday Sprinkle Cookies; Oatmeal Cookies; Stater Bros., Homestyle Cookies when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

3 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 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 6 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 Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 6 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening Holiday Sprinkle CookiesOatmeal CookiesStater Bros., Homestyle CookiesStater Bros., Homestyle Cookies OatmealStater Bros., Homestyle Cookies, Oatmeal RaisinBaker's batch, soft baked cookies, iced lemon
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening sits among other busy catalog rows (6 products, mean score 95.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening page

Use the 6-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening?

Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Interesterified Soybean Oil Shortening). 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.