Methylparaben Preservative
Methylparaben Preservative appears in 17 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
Methylparaben Preservative appears in 17 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.
- 17
- catalogued products
- #10,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 95%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
64.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Methylparaben Preservative as the trigger. Open records such as Black & white iced cake cookie; Cake; Creative Occasions, Coconut Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 95% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
64.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 17 of 17 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.
Methylparaben Preservative: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,499 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 444 others that also appear in exactly 17 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 95%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 17 products listing it (mean slot 51.0). Methylparaben Preservative usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
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 Methylparaben Preservative
Products Containing Methylparaben Preservative
High-volume slice (16 of 17) for products naming Methylparaben Preservative:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Methylparaben Preservative: 17 products, mean screening score 74.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Methylparaben Preservative page
Use the 17-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 Methylparaben Preservative 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
- 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.
Methylparaben Preservative — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Methylparaben Preservative sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
64.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Methylparaben Preservative is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Methylparaben Preservative? ▼
Methylparaben Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,499 of 247,206), appearing in 17 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Methylparaben Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Methylparaben Preservative appears in 17 products (#10,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Methylparaben Preservative). 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.