Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters
Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters appears in 7 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 Mono Fatty Acid Esters appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 0
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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
57.1% 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 Mono Fatty Acid Esters as the trigger. Open records such as Castella cream cake; Cookies & cream cake, cookies & cream; Mini boston cream filled donuts with decadent chocolate frosting & fall leaf sprinkles, mini fall donuts and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 66% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7 of 7 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 Mono Fatty Acid Esters: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 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
- 66%
- Averaged label depth puts Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters in the lower half of the list (66% of list length, mean slot 43.1). 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.
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 Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters
Products Containing Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters:
Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters: 7 listings averaging 67.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters evidence
Use the 7-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.1% 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 Mono Fatty Acid Esters 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 Mono Fatty Acid Esters? ▼
Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters 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.
Why is Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Propylene Glycol Mono Fatty Acid Esters). 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.