Isoamyl Alcohol

Isoamyl Alcohol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6 indexed US food products.

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Source-backed answer

Isoamyl Alcohol appears in 6 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.

6
catalogued products
#21,732
usage rank of 247,206
1
named brands represented
57%
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.

Isoamyl Alcohol: top-decile catalog footprint (#21,732 of 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
57%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 26.2). Isoamyl Alcohol 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

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Isoamyl Alcohol spans 1 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Beer Battered Mushrooms 4360; 5/8" beer battered onion rings; Beer battered thick cut onion rings when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

1 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.

Function

FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT

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 Isoamyl Alcohol

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 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Isoamyl Alcohol Beer Battered Mushrooms 43605/8" beer battered onion ringsBeer battered thick cut onion ringsBeer-battered white cheddar cheese curdsBourbon almondsMaple bourbon pecans
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.

Products Containing Isoamyl Alcohol

6 busy labels from the 6 indexed products that list Isoamyl Alcohol:

Beer Battered Mushrooms 4360
Kettle Brau
100/100
5/8" beer battered onion rings
Unknown
50/100
Beer battered thick cut onion rings
Unknown
100/100
Beer-battered white cheddar cheese curds
Unknown
100/100
Bourbon almonds
Unknown
100/100
Maple bourbon pecans
Unknown
100/100
Download these 6 product rows (CSV) 6 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Isoamyl Alcohol vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Isoamyl Alcohol: 6 listings averaging 91.7/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Isoamyl Alcohol record

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

  • Check the listed products containing Isoamyl Alcohol before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Isoamyl Alcohol

What do the source ratings say about Isoamyl Alcohol? ▼

Isoamyl Alcohol has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Approved. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.

Which product shelves show up most often with Isoamyl Alcohol? ▼

Isoamyl Alcohol 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.

What does Isoamyl Alcohol do in food? ▼

Isoamyl Alcohol is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Isoamyl Alcohol). 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.