Mineral Oil
Mineral Oil appears in 767 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
Mineral Oil appears in 767 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.
- 767
- catalogued products
- #787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 177
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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
71.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Mineral Oil as the trigger. Open records such as 7 select, cherry sours; 7 select, fruit snacks; 7 select, gourmet jelly beans and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 58.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 64% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
71.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 767 of 767 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.
Mineral Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#787 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Mean relative depth 64% across 767 parsed labels, slot 13.2 on average. Mineral Oil 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Mineral Oil
Across the 767 products on this site that list Mineral Oil, 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. Red 40 shows up about 9.4x more often with Mineral Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mineral Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 389 | 50.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 303 | 39.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 280 | 36.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 220 | 28.7% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 90 | 11.7% | 2.1% |
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 Mineral Oil
Products Containing Mineral Oil
16 busy labels from the 767 indexed products that list Mineral Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Sweet Potato”)
High-volume peers for Mineral Oil: 767 products, mean screening score 58.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Sweet Potato”, “Calcium Citrate”, “White Wine Vinegar”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Mineral Oil evidence
Start from Mineral Oil's 767 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Mineral Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Mineral Oil with a peer such as “Sweet Potato” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Mineral Oil
How should I read safety signals when Mineral Oil sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
71.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Mineral Oil is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mineral Oil? ▼
Mineral Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#787 of 247,206), appearing in 767 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mineral Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mineral Oil appears in 767 products (#787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mineral Oil). 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.