Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 34 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

Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 34 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.

34
catalogued products
#6,452
usage rank of 247,206
7
named brands represented
76%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

82.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids as the trigger. Open records such as Belmont Pumpkin Pecan Mini Bundt Cakes; Dutch Maid Bakery, Chocolate Mother's Day Cake; Dutch Maid Bakery, Walnut Fudge Brownie and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 44.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 76% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

82.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 34 of 34 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids - usage rank #6,452

Usage rank
#6,452
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
76%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 34 products listing it (mean slot 32.0). Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Across the 34 products on this site that list Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids, 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. Red 40 shows up about 10.9x more often with Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +53.4ppRed 40+53.4ppYellow 6: +46.6ppYellow 6+46.6ppRed 3: +48.9ppRed 3+48.9ppYellow 5: +42.3ppYellow 5+42.3ppBlue 2: +46.2ppBlue 2+46.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
53.4pp
Yellow 6
46.6pp
Red 3
48.9pp
Yellow 5
42.3pp
Blue 2
46.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids products Share of all products
Red 40 20 58.8% 5.4%
Yellow 6 17 50% 3.4%
Red 3 17 50% 1.1%
Yellow 5 16 47.1% 4.8%
Blue 2 16 47.1% 0.9%

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 Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids sits among other busy catalog rows (34 products, mean score 44/100). 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 Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids evidence

Use the 34-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids sits in heavily flagged products?

82.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids?

Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Polyglycerol Ester Of Fatty Acids). 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.