Myristic Acid

Myristic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 4 indexed US food products.

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Source-backed answer

Myristic Acid appears in 4 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
67%
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.

Myristic Acid: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Mean relative depth 67% across 4 parsed labels, slot 25.8 on average. Myristic Acid tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Face & Beard Wash; Intensive Moisturizing Lotion; Twisted Pretzel Sticks Sour Cream & Onion to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Myristic Acid 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.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.

Function

FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Myristic Acid

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 4 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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Myristic Acid Face & Beard WashIntensive Moisturizing LotionTwisted Pretzel Sticks Sour Cream & OnionPretzels
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.

Products Containing Myristic Acid

All 4 indexed products that name Myristic Acid:

Face & Beard Wash
Bevel
100/100
Intensive Moisturizing Lotion
CeraVe
95/100
Twisted Pretzel Sticks Sour Cream & Onion
Snyder's Of Hanover
100/100
Pretzels
Unknown
100/100
Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles

Myristic Acid comparison set — 4 products, mean 98.8/100.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Myristic Acid evidence

Use the 4-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Myristic Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Myristic Acid carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Myristic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Myristic Acid show up across the catalog? ▼

Myristic Acid sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 3 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

What does Myristic Acid do in food? ▼

Myristic Acid is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, lubricant or release agent, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Myristic Acid). 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.