Leaving Agents

Leaving Agents appears in 3 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

Leaving Agents appears in 3 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.

3
catalogued products
#35,091
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
69%
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: 1 of 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Prepat 33, ready to bake chocolate lava cake liquid batter; Quadratini Tiramisu Bite Size Cream Filled Wafer Cookies; Oaxacan mole sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Leaving Agents itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 3 linked records have some flagged component

All 3 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.

Leaving Agents: above-median product count (beats 85.8% of ranked ingredients)

Usage rank
#35,091
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3 products listing it (mean slot 14.7). Leaving Agents usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

Products Containing Leaving Agents

Every indexed product currently listing Leaving Agents (3 total):

Download these 3 product rows (CSV) 3 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles

Leaving Agents comparison set — 3 products, mean 98.3/100.

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 Leaving Agents page

Use the 3-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Leaving Agents to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • 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 Leaving Agents 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 Leaving Agents. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Leaving Agents show up across the catalog?

Leaving Agents sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Leaving Agents so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Leaving Agents. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leaving Agents). 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.