Monoglycerides
Monoglycerides appears in 5,788 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
Monoglycerides appears in 5,788 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.
- 5,788
- catalogued products
- #190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 809
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2234 of 5788 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Loaf; 100% light whole wheat; 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Monoglycerides itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2234 of 5,788 linked records have some flagged component
All 5773 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.
Monoglycerides: top-decile catalog footprint (#190 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 5,789 products listing it (mean slot 22.0). Monoglycerides usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Monoglycerides
Across the 5,788 products on this site that list Monoglycerides, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 57x more often with Monoglycerides than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Monoglycerides products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 658 | 11.4% | 0.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 651 | 11.2% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 611 | 10.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 511 | 8.8% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 483 | 8.3% | 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.
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 Monoglycerides
Products Containing Monoglycerides
16 busy labels from the 5,788 indexed products that list Monoglycerides:
Monoglycerides vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Monoglycerides sits among other busy catalog rows (5,788 products, mean score 88.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Polysorbate 60”, “Cocoa Processed With Alkali”, “Corn Oil”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Monoglycerides record
Start from Monoglycerides's 5,788 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Monoglycerides to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Monoglycerides next to “Cocoa Processed With Alkali” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Monoglycerides — common follow-ups
Does Monoglycerides 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 Monoglycerides. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Monoglycerides? ▼
Monoglycerides ranks in the top decile by product count (#190 of 247,206), appearing in 5,788 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Monoglycerides so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Monoglycerides appears in 5,788 products (#190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Monoglycerides). 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.