Palmolein
Palmolein appears in 49 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
Palmolein appears in 49 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.
- 49
- catalogued products
- #5,044
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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 Palmolein - usage rank #5,044
- Usage rank
- #5,044
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 64 others that also appear in exactly 49 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Mean relative depth 39% across 49 parsed labels, slot 4.5 on average. Palmolein tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Palmolein spans 27 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 803275014144; Banana Wafers; Banana Wafers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
27 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 20 of 39 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Palmolein
Products Containing Palmolein
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 49 indexed products containing Palmolein:
Palmolein vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Palmolein: 49 listings averaging 97.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Palmolein evidence
Start from Palmolein's 49 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Palmolein to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Palmolein
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Palmolein? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Palmolein, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,044 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Palmolein? ▼
Palmolein ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,044 of 247,206), appearing in 49 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Palmolein so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Palmolein appears in 49 products (#5,044 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Palmolein). 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.