Lecithins
Lecithins appears in 105 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
Lecithins appears in 105 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.
- 105
- catalogued products
- #3,033
- usage rank of 247,206
- 67
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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.
Lecithins: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,033 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,033
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 105 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Mean relative depth 63% across 105 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Lecithins tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lecithins spans 67 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1 Cal Sunflower Oil Cooking Spray; 3 SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM; A Piece Of Switzerland when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
67 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 105 of 105 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Lecithins
Across the 105 products on this site that list Lecithins, 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. Sucralose shows up about 1.8x more often with Lecithins than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lecithins products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 5 | 4.8% | 2.7% |
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 Lecithins
Products Containing Lecithins
16 busy labels from the 105 indexed products that list Lecithins:
High-volume peers for Lecithins beside “Active Yogurt Cultures”
High-volume peers for Lecithins: 105 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Active Yogurt Cultures; Alpha Tocopherol; As Cholecalciferol. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Lecithins page
105 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lecithins are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lecithins to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Lecithins
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lecithins? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lecithins, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,033 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lecithins? ▼
Lecithins ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,033 of 247,206), appearing in 105 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lecithins so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lecithins appears in 105 products (#3,033 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lecithins). 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.