Palmitic Acid
Palmitic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 15 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Palmitic Acid appears in 15 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 15
- catalogued products
- #11,449
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Palmitic Acid - usage rank #11,449
- Usage rank
- #11,449
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 15 parsed labels, slot 11.3 on average. Palmitic Acid tends to sit in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 15 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Black Cherry Merlot; dove relaxing lavender oil & chamomile; dove sensitive skin to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Palmitic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Body-lotion supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5 of 15 linked records have some flagged component
All 14 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 15 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 Palmitic Acid
Products Containing Palmitic Acid
High-volume slice (15 of 15) for products naming Palmitic Acid:
High-volume peers for Palmitic Acid
Palmitic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (15 products, mean score 92.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Palmitic Acid evidence
15 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Palmitic Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Palmitic Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Palmitic Acid
Does Palmitic Acid carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Palmitic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Palmitic Acid? ▼
Palmitic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Body-lotion. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Palmitic Acid do in food? ▼
Palmitic Acid is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, lubricant or release agent, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palmitic Acid). 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.