Lac-resin
Lac-resin appears in 170 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 170 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.
- 170
- catalogued products
- #2,164
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 64 of 170 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted cookies; Assorted Cookies; Assorted cookies, assorted to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Lac-resin itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
64 of 170 linked records have some flagged component
All 170 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Lac-resin: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,164 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,164
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 170 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 170 products listing it (mean slot 18.0). 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 170 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 4.7x more often with Lac-resin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lac-resin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 43 | 25.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 30 | 17.6% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 24 | 14.1% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 23 | 13.5% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 23 | 13.5% | 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
Products Containing Lac-resin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 170 indexed products containing Lac-resin:
Lac-resin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Lac-resin sits among other busy catalog rows (170 products, mean score 76.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: D-alpha-tocopheryl Acetate; Gluten Free Flour; Organic Ground Mustard Seed. 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.
What to do with this Lac-resin record
Use the 170-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Lac-resin and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Lac-resin
Does Lac-resin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Lac-resin. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lac-resin? ▼
Lac-resin ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,164 of 247,206), appearing in 170 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 170 products (#2,164 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.