Palm Oil Shortening
Palm Oil Shortening appears in 333 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 Oil Shortening appears in 333 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.
- 333
- catalogued products
- #1,374
- usage rank of 247,206
- 95
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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: 126 of 333 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All But Gluten, Soft Raisin Cookies; Animal shaped biscuits; Apple Berry Blossom to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Palm Oil Shortening 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.
126 of 333 linked records have some flagged component
All 328 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 Oil Shortening - usage rank #1,374
- Usage rank
- #1,374
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 333 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Palm Oil Shortening in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 17.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Oil Shortening
Across the 333 products on this site that list Palm Oil Shortening, 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 5 shows up about 4x more often with Palm Oil Shortening than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Palm Oil Shortening products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 64 | 19.2% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 58 | 17.4% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 58 | 17.4% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 45 | 13.5% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 35 | 10.5% | 4.2% |
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 Oil Shortening
Products Containing Palm Oil Shortening
16 busy labels from the 333 indexed products that list Palm Oil Shortening:
Palm Oil Shortening vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Palm Oil Shortening: 333 listings averaging 79.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Caramelized Sugar · Coconut Milk Powder · Tallow.
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 Oil Shortening page
Use the 333-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 Oil Shortening to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Palm Oil Shortening next to “Coconut Milk Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Palm Oil Shortening — common follow-ups
Does Palm Oil Shortening 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 Oil Shortening. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Palm Oil Shortening? ▼
Palm Oil Shortening ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,374 of 247,206), appearing in 333 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Palm Oil Shortening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palm Oil Shortening appears in 333 products (#1,374 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palm Oil Shortening). 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.