Lac Resin

Lac Resin appears in 121 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

Lac Resin appears in 121 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.

121
catalogued products
#2,754
usage rank of 247,206
25
named brands represented
82%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

87.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Lac Resin as the trigger. Open records such as Assorted cookies, assorted; Cake Bites; California Mandarins and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 14.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 82% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

87.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 120 of 120 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Lac Resin - usage rank #2,754

Usage rank
#2,754
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 121 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
82%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 121 products listing it (mean slot 35.6). Lac Resin usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 else is usually in the same product as Lac Resin

Across the 121 products on this site that list Lac Resin, 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. Red 40 shows up about 15.8x more often with Lac Resin than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +79.7ppRed 40+79.7ppBlue 1: +80.1ppBlue 1+80.1ppYellow 6: +80.1ppYellow 6+80.1ppYellow 5: +77ppYellow 5+77ppBlue 2: +77.6ppBlue 2+77.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Lac Resin products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
79.7pp
Blue 1
80.1pp
Yellow 6
80.1pp
Yellow 5
77pp
Blue 2
77.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Lac Resin products Share of all products
Red 40 103 85.1% 5.4%
Blue 1 102 84.3% 4.2%
Yellow 6 101 83.5% 3.4%
Yellow 5 99 81.8% 4.8%
Blue 2 95 78.5% 0.9%

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.

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 Lac Resin

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 16 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 050100150 051015 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Lac Resin
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cane Vinegar”)

Lac Resin sits among other busy catalog rows (121 products, mean score 14.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Cane Vinegar”, “Caramel Swirl”, “Fd&c Yellow #6 Lake”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

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 Lac Resin page

Start from Lac Resin's 121 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Lac Resin — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Lac Resin sits in heavily flagged products?

87.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Lac Resin is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Lac Resin?

Lac Resin ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,754 of 247,206), appearing in 121 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Lac Resin so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lac Resin appears in 121 products (#2,754 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lac Resin). 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.