Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 76 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

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 76 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.

76
catalogued products
#3,767
usage rank of 247,206
18
named brands represented
61%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

52.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids as the trigger. Open records such as Bakery fresh goodness, banana nut loaf cake, banana; Bakery fresh goodness, loaf cake, lemon; Bundt cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 81.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 61% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

52.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 76 of 76 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.

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,767 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,767
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 34 others that also appear in exactly 76 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
61%
Mean relative depth 61% across 76 parsed labels, slot 29.3 on average. Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 else is usually in the same product as Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids

Across the 76 products on this site that list Propylene Glycol 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 38.5x more often with Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids than in the catalogue at large.

Polysorbate 60: +52.5ppPolysorbate 60+52.5ppRed 40: +17ppRed 40+17ppCaramel Coloring: +16.7ppCaramel Coloring+16.7ppYellow 5: +11ppYellow 5+11ppYellow 6: +9.8ppYellow 6+9.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Propylene Glycol 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.

Polysorbate 60
52.5pp
Red 40
17pp
Caramel Coloring
16.7pp
Yellow 5
11pp
Yellow 6
9.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids products Share of all products
Polysorbate 60 41 53.9% 1.4%
Red 40 17 22.4% 5.4%
Caramel Coloring 17 22.4% 5.7%
Yellow 5 12 15.8% 4.8%
Yellow 6 10 13.2% 3.4%

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 Propylene Glycol 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 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Propylene Glycol 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.

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids sits among other busy catalog rows (76 products, mean score 81.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Aspartame+”, “Bacillus Subtilis”, “Batter Mix”. 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.

What to do with this Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids record

Start from Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids's 76 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids with a peer such as “Aspartame+” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

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

Questions readers ask about Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids

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

52.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Propylene Glycol 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 Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids?

Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,767 of 247,206), appearing in 76 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

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

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids appears in 76 products (#3,767 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Propylene Glycol 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.