Oleic Acid
Oleic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 18 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Oleic Acid appears in 18 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. 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.
- 18
- catalogued products
- #10,099
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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.
Oleic Acid sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,099 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,099
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Mean relative depth 82% across 18 parsed labels, slot 24.6 on average. Oleic Acid tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Oleic Acid as the trigger. Open records such as Campbell'S, Country Style Sausage Gravy; Chunky Baked Potato With Cheddar & Bacon Bits Soup; Glow Organic Sea Buckthorn Oil and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 82% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 17 of 17 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, WASHING OR SURFACE REMOVAL AGENT
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 Oleic Acid
Products Containing Oleic Acid
High-volume slice (16 of 18) for products naming Oleic Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Oleic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (18 products, mean score 84.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Oleic Acid record
Start from Oleic Acid's 18 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Oleic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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 Oleic Acid
How should I read safety signals when Oleic Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Oleic Acid is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Oleic Acid scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Oleic Acid? ▼
Oleic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Oleic Acid serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Oleic Acid is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, surface-active agent, washing or surface removal agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oleic 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.