Propane
Propane carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 27 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Propane appears in 27 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.
- 27
- catalogued products
- #7,605
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
Propane: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,605 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,605
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 185 others that also appear in exactly 27 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 27 products listing it (mean slot 8.0). Propane usually falls in the upper half of the 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Propane spans 18 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bakers baking spray; Canola Oil Cooking Spray; Chicken With Pasta when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 26 of 27 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
PROPELLANT
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 Propane
Products Containing Propane
16 busy labels from the 27 indexed products that list Propane:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Propane sits among other busy catalog rows (27 products, mean score 98.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Propane record
Use the 27-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Propane before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Propane? ▼
Propane has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 11.1% 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 Propane? ▼
Propane ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,605 of 247,206), appearing in 27 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Propane do in food? ▼
Propane is recorded as a propellant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Propane). 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.