Palm Oils

Palm Oils appears in 98 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 Oils appears in 98 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.

98
catalogued products
#3,174
usage rank of 247,206
60
named brands represented
52%
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: 42 of 98 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 7 Layer Bars; All-purpose baking mix; Banana Cake to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Palm Oils 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.

42 of 98 linked records have some flagged component

All 97 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 Oils - usage rank #3,174

Usage rank
#3,174
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Mean relative depth 52% across 98 parsed labels, slot 18.3 on average. Palm Oils 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Palm Oils

Across the 98 products on this site that list Palm Oils, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.7x more often with Palm Oils than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +7.7ppCarrageenan+7.7ppRed 40: +6.8ppRed 40+6.8ppPolysorbate 60: +9.8ppPolysorbate 60+9.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +9.1ppTitanium Dioxide+9.1ppCaramel Coloring: +4.5ppCaramel Coloring+4.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Palm Oils products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
7.7pp
Red 40
6.8pp
Polysorbate 60
9.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
9.1pp
Caramel Coloring
4.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Palm Oils products Share of all products
Carrageenan 12 12.2% 4.5%
Red 40 12 12.2% 5.4%
Polysorbate 60 11 11.2% 1.4%
Titanium Dioxide 11 11.2% 2.1%
Caramel Coloring 10 10.2% 5.7%

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 Oils

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 16 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 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Palm Oils
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”)

Top-decile company for Palm Oils: 98 listings averaging 86.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”, “Anti-caking Agents”, “Asiago”.

Similar mean product score

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

Next steps from the Palm Oils page

Use the 98-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Palm Oils and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Palm Oils — common follow-ups

Does Palm Oils 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 Oils. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Palm Oils?

Palm Oils ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Palm Oils so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palm Oils appears in 98 products (#3,174 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palm Oils). 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.