Palm Kernel
Palm Kernel appears in 2,925 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
Palm Kernel appears in 2,925 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.
- 2,925
- catalogued products
- #308
- usage rank of 247,206
- 577
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 992 of 2925 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 Gold Cupcakes With Buttercreme & Chocolate Icing; 12 Mini Gold Cupcakes; 2 peanut butter cups to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Palm Kernel itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
992 of 2,925 linked records have some flagged component
All 2913 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.
High-volume listing for Palm Kernel - usage rank #308
- Usage rank
- #308
- 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
- 37%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,939 products listing it (mean slot 11.5). Palm Kernel usually falls in the upper 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 Palm Kernel
Across the 2,925 products on this site that list Palm Kernel, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.5x more often with Palm Kernel than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Palm Kernel products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 390 | 13.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 343 | 11.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 326 | 11.1% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 291 | 9.9% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 270 | 9.2% | 3.4% |
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 Palm Kernel
Products Containing Palm Kernel
High-volume slice (16 of 2,925) for products naming Palm Kernel:
High-volume peers for Palm Kernel beside “Dried Red Bell Peppers”
Top-decile company for Palm Kernel: 2,925 listings averaging 85/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dried Red Bell Peppers; Peanut; BHA.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Palm Kernel record
Use the 2,925-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 Palm Kernel to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Palm Kernel with a peer such as “Dried Red Bell Peppers” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Palm Kernel — common follow-ups
Does Palm Kernel 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 Palm Kernel. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Palm Kernel? ▼
Palm Kernel ranks in the top decile by product count (#308 of 247,206), appearing in 2,925 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Palm Kernel so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palm Kernel appears in 2,925 products (#308 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palm Kernel). 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.