Jojoba
Jojoba appears in 45 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
Jojoba appears in 45 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.
- 45
- catalogued products
- #5,333
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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 Jojoba - usage rank #5,333
- Usage rank
- #5,333
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 45 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Jojoba in the lower half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 17.0). 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Jojoba spans 25 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with Baby Lotion; Baby Mineral Sunscreen Cream; Baby Mineral Sunscreen Lotion + Prebiotics when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
25 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 38 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 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 Jojoba
Products Containing Jojoba
16 busy labels from the 45 indexed products that list Jojoba:
High-volume peers for Jojoba
Top-decile company for Jojoba: 45 listings averaging 96.4/100.
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 Jojoba page
Start from Jojoba's 45 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Jojoba before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Jojoba? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Jojoba, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,333 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Jojoba? ▼
Jojoba ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,333 of 247,206), appearing in 45 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Jojoba so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Jojoba appears in 45 products (#5,333 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Jojoba). 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.