Lanolin
Lanolin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 13 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Lanolin appears in 13 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.
- 13
- catalogued products
- #12,640
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Lanolin sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#12,640 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #12,640
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Lanolin in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 12.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 6 of 13 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chapstick classic; Dry Skin Gel; Lanolin Nipple Cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Lanolin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Chapstick supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
6 of 13 linked records have some flagged component
All 13 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Function
MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 13 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 Lanolin
Products Containing Lanolin
High-volume slice (13 of 13) for products naming Lanolin:
Lanolin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Lanolin: 13 products, mean screening score 85.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Lanolin record
Start from Lanolin's 13 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Lanolin before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Lanolin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Lanolin itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lanolin? ▼
Lanolin ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Chapstick. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Lanolin do in food? ▼
Lanolin is recorded as a masticatory substance in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lanolin). 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.