Peanut Oil
Peanut Oil carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 3,897 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Peanut Oil appears in 3,897 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 3,897
- catalogued products
- #258
- usage rank of 247,206
- 698
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
Peanut Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#258 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #258
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,899 products listing it (mean slot 11.2). Peanut Oil usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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: 1011 of 3897 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Lactose Free Ice Cream; 100% natural honey crunchy peanut butter spread; 100% Peanut Oil to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Peanut Oil 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.
1011 of 3,897 linked records have some flagged component
All 3783 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Peanut Oil
Across the 3,897 products on this site that list Peanut Oil, 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 2.2x more often with Peanut Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Peanut Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 383 | 9.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 258 | 6.6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 250 | 6.4% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 239 | 6.1% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 205 | 5.3% | 5.4% |
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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
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 Peanut Oil
Products Containing Peanut Oil
16 busy labels from the 3,897 indexed products that list Peanut Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vegetable Shortening”)
Peanut Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (3,897 products, mean score 92/100). Nearest count peers include “Vegetable Shortening”, “Fumaric Acid”, “Blueberries”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Peanut Oil page
3,897 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Peanut Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Peanut Oil before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Peanut Oil with a peer such as “Vegetable Shortening” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Peanut Oil — common follow-ups
Does Peanut Oil carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Peanut Oil itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Peanut Oil? ▼
Peanut Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#258 of 247,206), appearing in 3,897 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Peanut Oil do in food? ▼
Peanut Oil is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement, solvent or vehicle, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peanut Oil). 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.