Palm Shortening
Palm Shortening appears in 360 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 Shortening appears in 360 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.
- 360
- catalogued products
- #1,302
- usage rank of 247,206
- 103
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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: 89 of 360 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Wheat Tortillas; Almond Biscuit Sticks; Apple Cinnamon Cookies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Palm 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.
89 of 360 linked records have some flagged component
All 347 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.
Palm Shortening sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,302 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,302
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 360 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Averaged label depth puts Palm Shortening in the upper half of the list (47% of list length, mean slot 16.8). 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 Shortening
Across the 360 products on this site that list Palm 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.3x more often with Palm Shortening than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Palm Shortening products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 48 | 13.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 24 | 6.7% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 23 | 6.4% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 23 | 6.4% | 1.1% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 13 | 3.6% | 2.1% |
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 Shortening
Products Containing Palm Shortening
16 busy labels from the 360 indexed products that list Palm Shortening:
High-volume peers for Palm Shortening beside “Eau”
Palm Shortening sits among other busy catalog rows (360 products, mean score 92.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Eau; Instant Coffee; Mono - And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Palm Shortening evidence
Use the 360-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 Shortening to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Palm Shortening with a peer such as “Eau” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Palm Shortening — common follow-ups
Does Palm 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 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 Shortening? ▼
Palm Shortening ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,302 of 247,206), appearing in 360 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Palm Shortening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palm Shortening appears in 360 products (#1,302 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palm 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.