Palm Kernel & Palm Oil
Palm Kernel & Palm Oil appears in 73 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 & Palm Oil appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Palm Kernel & Palm Oil as the trigger. Open records such as Birthday Cake Crispy Treat; Birthday Cake Plant-Based Bolt Cookies; Candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 62.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 37% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 73 of 73 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.
High-volume listing for Palm Kernel & Palm Oil - usage rank #3,864
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Averaged label depth puts Palm Kernel & Palm Oil in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 7.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Palm Kernel & Palm Oil
Across the 73 products on this site that list Palm Kernel & Palm Oil, 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 6 shows up about 16.9x more often with Palm Kernel & Palm Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Palm Kernel & Palm Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 42 | 57.5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 41 | 56.2% | 4.8% |
| Blue 2 | 40 | 54.8% | 0.9% |
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 & Palm Oil
Products Containing Palm Kernel & Palm Oil
16 busy labels from the 73 indexed products that list Palm Kernel & Palm Oil:
Palm Kernel & Palm Oil vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Palm Kernel & Palm Oil: 73 products, mean screening score 62/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Retain Freshness · Anti Caking Agent · Chiles. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Next steps from the Palm Kernel & Palm Oil page
Use the 73-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 & Palm Oil 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. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Palm Kernel & Palm Oil sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Palm Kernel & Palm Oil is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Palm Kernel & Palm Oil? ▼
Palm Kernel & Palm Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Palm Kernel & Palm Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palm Kernel & Palm Oil appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palm Kernel & Palm Oil). 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.