Quillaja Extract

Quillaja Extract appears in 38 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

Quillaja Extract appears in 38 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.

38
catalogued products
#6,007
usage rank of 247,206
13
named brands represented
78%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 9 of 38 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 20 Mg Cbd Broad Spectrum Lemonade+Cannabiods; Ashwagandha Chai With Coconut Milk; Corn Puff Snack to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Quillaja Extract itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

9 of 38 linked records have some flagged component

All 37 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Quillaja Extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,007 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,007
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 118 others that also appear in exactly 38 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
78%
Mean relative depth 78% across 38 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Quillaja Extract tends to sit near the end of the captured 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 Quillaja Extract

Across the 38 products on this site that list Quillaja Extract, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.8x more often with Quillaja Extract than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Quillaja Extract products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 6 15.8% 5.7%

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 Quillaja Extract

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 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Quillaja Extract
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Quillaja Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (38 products, mean score 97.2/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Quillaja Extract page

Start from Quillaja Extract's 38 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Quillaja Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Quillaja Extract — common follow-ups

Does Quillaja Extract carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Quillaja Extract. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Quillaja Extract?

Quillaja Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,007 of 247,206), appearing in 38 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Quillaja Extract so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Quillaja Extract appears in 38 products (#6,007 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Quillaja Extract). 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.