Phenethyl Alcohol
Phenethyl Alcohol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Phenethyl Alcohol appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Phenethyl Alcohol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#19,546 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Phenethyl Alcohol in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 38.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cantabilr Green Grape Falvored Ade; Recovery Conditioner; The cult classic face cleanser to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Phenethyl Alcohol itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dave-wash supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 7 linked records have some flagged component
All 6 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Phenethyl Alcohol
Products Containing Phenethyl Alcohol
7 busy labels from the 7 indexed products that list Phenethyl Alcohol:
Phenethyl Alcohol vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Phenethyl Alcohol: 7 products, mean screening score 97.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Phenethyl Alcohol evidence
Use the 7-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 Phenethyl Alcohol to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Phenethyl Alcohol carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Phenethyl Alcohol 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 Phenethyl Alcohol? ▼
Phenethyl Alcohol ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Dave-wash. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Phenethyl Alcohol do in food? ▼
Phenethyl Alcohol is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Phenethyl Alcohol). 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.