Mono- And Diglycerides
Mono- And Diglycerides carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 98 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Mono- And Diglycerides appears in 98 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 98
- catalogued products
- #3,174
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
Mono- And Diglycerides sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,174 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,174
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Averaged label depth puts Mono- And Diglycerides in the lower half of the list (66% of list length, mean slot 14.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 47 of 98 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 8x8 White Confetti Cake W/White Icing; All Purpose Vegetable Shortening; All-Purpose Baking Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Mono- And Diglycerides itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Cooking helpers supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
47 of 98 linked records have some flagged component
All 98 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Mono- And Diglycerides
Across the 98 products on this site that list Mono- And Diglycerides, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.7x more often with Mono- And Diglycerides than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mono- And Diglycerides products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 12 | 12.2% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 11.2% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 10.2% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 9 | 9.2% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 9 | 9.2% | 5.4% |
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.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Mono- And Diglycerides
Products Containing Mono- And Diglycerides
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 98 indexed products containing Mono- And Diglycerides:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”)
High-volume peers for Mono- And Diglycerides: 98 products, mean screening score 85.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus; Anti-caking Agents; Asiago. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Mono- And Diglycerides page
Use the 98-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Mono- And Diglycerides and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Mono- And Diglycerides with a peer such as “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Mono- And Diglycerides
Does Mono- And Diglycerides carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Mono- And Diglycerides itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating 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 Mono- And Diglycerides? ▼
Mono- And Diglycerides ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Mono- And Diglycerides do in food? ▼
Mono- And Diglycerides is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, lubricant or release agent, masticatory substance, stabilizer or thickener, surface-active agent, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mono- And Diglycerides). 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.