Monoglyceride
Monoglyceride appears in 127 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
Monoglyceride appears in 127 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.
- 127
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 53
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 54 of 127 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 cheese rainbow TORTELLINI; 8 white sandwich buns; Ancient grain ivory teff to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Monoglyceride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
54 of 127 linked records have some flagged component
All 127 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.
Monoglyceride: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,653 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 127 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Mean relative depth 66% across 127 parsed labels, slot 23.8 on average. Monoglyceride 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 Monoglyceride
Across the 127 products on this site that list Monoglyceride, 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 1.8x more often with Monoglyceride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Monoglyceride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 8.7% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 8.7% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 7.9% | 2.1% |
| BHA | 9 | 7.1% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 6.3% | 4.5% |
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 Monoglyceride
Products Containing Monoglyceride
16 busy labels from the 127 indexed products that list Monoglyceride:
Monoglyceride vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Monoglyceride: 127 listings averaging 89.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: As Ascorbic Acid · Bacon Flavor · Beet Sugar.
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.
Next steps from the Monoglyceride page
Use the 127-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 Monoglyceride to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Monoglyceride carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Monoglyceride. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Monoglyceride? ▼
Monoglyceride ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 127 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Monoglyceride so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Monoglyceride appears in 127 products (#2,653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Monoglyceride). 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.