Medium Chain Triglycerides
Medium Chain Triglycerides appears in 1,045 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
Medium Chain Triglycerides appears in 1,045 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.
- 1,045
- catalogued products
- #646
- usage rank of 247,206
- 298
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
54.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Medium Chain Triglycerides as the trigger. Open records such as 100 calories protein nutrition shake; 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Mass Gainer Vanilla Milkshake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 81.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 65% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
54.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1036 of 1039 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.
High-volume listing for Medium Chain Triglycerides - usage rank #646
- Usage rank
- #646
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,045 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 1,045 parsed labels, slot 20.8 on average. Medium Chain Triglycerides tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Medium Chain Triglycerides
Across the 1,045 products on this site that list Medium Chain Triglycerides, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 3.1x more often with Medium Chain Triglycerides than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Medium Chain Triglycerides products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 158 | 15.1% | 4.8% |
| Sucralose | 157 | 15% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 114 | 10.9% | 1.8% |
| Carrageenan | 108 | 10.3% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 84 | 8% | 3.4% |
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.
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 Medium Chain Triglycerides
Products Containing Medium Chain Triglycerides
High-volume slice (16 of 1,045) for products naming Medium Chain Triglycerides:
Medium Chain Triglycerides vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Medium Chain Triglycerides: 1,045 listings averaging 81.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: White Rice Flour; Avocado Oil; Poppy Seeds.
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 Medium Chain Triglycerides page
Use the 1,045-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Medium Chain Triglycerides before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Medium Chain Triglycerides with a peer such as “White Rice Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Medium Chain Triglycerides
How should I read safety signals when Medium Chain Triglycerides sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
54.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Medium Chain Triglycerides is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Medium Chain Triglycerides? ▼
Medium Chain Triglycerides ranks in the top decile by product count (#646 of 247,206), appearing in 1,045 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Medium Chain Triglycerides so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Medium Chain Triglycerides appears in 1,045 products (#646 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Medium Chain Triglycerides). 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.