Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness

Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness appears in 183 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

Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness appears in 183 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.

183
catalogued products
#2,060
usage rank of 247,206
24
named brands represented
76%
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.

High-volume listing for Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness - usage rank #2,060

Usage rank
#2,060
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 183 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
76%
Mean relative depth 76% across 183 parsed labels, slot 19.7 on average. Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 14.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness spans 24 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Natural Fruit And Nutty Layered Granola Bar; 100% natural trail mix, cran-beary almond; Apple Cinnamon when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

24 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 182 of 182 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 Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness

Across the 183 products on this site that list Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness, 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. BHT shows up about 9.9x more often with Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness than in the catalogue at large.

BHT: +9.8ppBHT+9.8ppRed 40: +0.1ppRed 40+0.1ppPolysorbate 60: +3.5ppPolysorbate 60+3.5ppYellow 5: -0.4ppYellow 5-0.4ppYellow 6: +1ppYellow 6+1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

BHT
9.8pp
Red 40
0.1pp
Polysorbate 60
3.5pp
Yellow 5
-0.4pp
Yellow 6
1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness products Share of all products
BHT 20 10.9% 1.1%
Red 40 10 5.5% 5.4%
Polysorbate 60 9 4.9% 1.4%
Yellow 5 8 4.4% 4.8%
Yellow 6 8 4.4% 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 Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Apple Fiber”)

Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness sits among other busy catalog rows (183 products, mean score 93.5/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Apple Fiber · Cage-free Eggs · Dehydrated Cane Juice. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness evidence

Use the 183-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,060 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness?

Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,060 of 247,206), appearing in 183 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness appears in 183 products (#2,060 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mixed Tocopherols For Freshness). 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.