Linoleic Acid
Linoleic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Linoleic Acid appears in 7 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- 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.
Linoleic Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Linoleic Acid in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 17.3). 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare AlphaRet Overnight Cream; Everyday Diaper Rash Cream; Glow Organic Sea Buckthorn Oil to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Linoleic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Baby foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 7 linked records have some flagged component
All 6 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Linoleic Acid
Products Containing Linoleic Acid
High-volume slice (7 of 7) for products naming Linoleic Acid:
High-volume peers for Linoleic Acid
Top-decile company for Linoleic Acid: 7 listings averaging 97.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Linoleic Acid evidence
Start from Linoleic Acid's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Linoleic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Linoleic Acid carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Linoleic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Linoleic Acid? ▼
Linoleic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Baby foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Linoleic Acid do in food? ▼
Linoleic Acid is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Linoleic Acid). 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.