Propellant
Propellant appears in 165 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
Propellant appears in 165 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.
- 165
- catalogued products
- #2,208
- usage rank of 247,206
- 67
- named brands represented
- 92%
- 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.
Propellant sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,208 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,208
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 165 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 92%
- Mean relative depth 92% across 165 parsed labels, slot 8.6 on average. Propellant tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Propellant spans 67 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Natural Non-Stick Canola Cooking Spray Oil; Ahold cooking spray vegetable oil; Anti-Stick Pan Release Spray when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
67 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 159 of 164 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 Propellant
Across the 165 products on this site that list Propellant, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Propellant products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 7 | 4.2% | 4.5% |
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 Propellant
Products Containing Propellant
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 165 indexed products containing Propellant:
Propellant vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Propellant sits among other busy catalog rows (165 products, mean score 99.1/100). Nearest count peers include “Com”, “Dimethyl Silicone”, “Organic Grade A Reduced Fat Milk”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Propellant page
Start from Propellant's 165 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Propellant 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. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Propellant — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Propellant? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Propellant, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,208 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Propellant? ▼
Propellant ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,208 of 247,206), appearing in 165 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Propellant so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Propellant appears in 165 products (#2,208 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Propellant). 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.