Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan
Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan appears in 50 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
Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan appears in 50 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.
- 50
- catalogued products
- #4,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 89%
- 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 Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan - usage rank #4,971
- Usage rank
- #4,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 50 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 89%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 50 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan 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.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan spans 23 named brands and is led by the Desserts group. Start with Bourbon vanilla pound cake non-alcoholic coffee creamer, bourbon vanilla pound cake; Caramel non-alcoholic coffee creamer, caramel; Charbroiled Beef Bites 'N Mashed Potatoes when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
23 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 50 of 50 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan
Across the 50 products on this site that list Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 12% | 5.7% |
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 Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan
Products Containing Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan
High-volume slice (16 of 50) for products naming Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan:
Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan: 50 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 2% Dv; 5 %; Active Yogurt With L. Bulgaricus. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan page
50 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan next to “5 %” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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 Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,971 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan? ▼
Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,971 of 247,206), appearing in 50 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan appears in 50 products (#4,971 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Polysorbate 80 And Carrageenan). 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.