Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 56 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids appears in 56 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.

56
catalogued products
#4,615
usage rank of 247,206
7
named brands represented
85%
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 Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids - usage rank #4,615

Usage rank
#4,615
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
85%
Mean relative depth 85% across 56 parsed labels, slot 35.4 on average. Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

69.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids as the trigger. Open records such as 12 frosted cakes with spring strawberry flavored filling, spring strawberry; 12 S'Mores Flavored Cakes, 12 S'Mores; Banana Cake With Icing, Banana and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 85% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

69.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 56 of 56 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids

Across the 56 products on this site that list Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 5.6x more often with Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +26.4ppCaramel Coloring+26.4ppPolysorbate 60: +27.2ppPolysorbate 60+27.2ppCarrageenan: +24.1ppCarrageenan+24.1ppTitanium Dioxide: +15.8ppTitanium Dioxide+15.8ppRed 40: +12.5ppRed 40+12.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
26.4pp
Polysorbate 60
27.2pp
Carrageenan
24.1pp
Titanium Dioxide
15.8pp
Red 40
12.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 18 32.1% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 16 28.6% 1.4%
Carrageenan 16 28.6% 4.5%
Titanium Dioxide 10 17.9% 2.1%
Red 40 10 17.9% 5.4%

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.

Function

EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT

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 Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids

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 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids
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.

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids sits among other busy catalog rows (56 products, mean score 76.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Almond Base”, “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture”, “Beta-carotene For Color”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids page

56 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Place Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids

How should I read safety signals when Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids sits in heavily flagged products?

69.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids?

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What function does Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids serve when it appears beside other flagged additives?

Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids). 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.