Potassium Stearate
Potassium Stearate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Stearate appears in 7 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Prior Sanctioned.” 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
- 6
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
Potassium Stearate 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
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Potassium Stearate in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 26.4). 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potassium Stearate spans 6 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bimbo roles; Egg Tarts; Girl Scouts Coconut Caramel Mini Cupcakes when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 7 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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Potassium Stearate
Products Containing Potassium Stearate
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Potassium Stearate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Potassium Stearate: 7 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Potassium Stearate evidence
7 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Stearate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Stearate 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potassium Stearate — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Potassium Stearate? ▼
Potassium Stearate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Prior Sanctioned. With only 14.3% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Stearate? ▼
Potassium Stearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Stearate do in food? ▼
Potassium Stearate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Stearate). 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.