Isobutane
Isobutane carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 21 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Isobutane appears in 21 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Isobutane - usage rank #9,037
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Mean relative depth 29% across 21 parsed labels, slot 3.6 on average. Isobutane tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Isobutane spans 13 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bakers baking spray; Canola Oil Cooking Spray; Emeril's, all temperature no-stick canola cooking spray, creamery butter when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 20 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
PROPELLANT
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 Isobutane
Products Containing Isobutane
16 busy labels from the 21 indexed products that list Isobutane:
High-volume peers for Isobutane
High-volume peers for Isobutane: 21 products, mean screening score 97.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Isobutane page
Start from Isobutane's 21 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Isobutane before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Isobutane — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Isobutane? ▼
Isobutane has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 14.3% 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 Isobutane? ▼
Isobutane ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Isobutane do in food? ▼
Isobutane is recorded as a propellant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Isobutane). 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.