Retinyl Acetate
Retinyl Acetate appears in 61 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
Retinyl Acetate appears in 61 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.
- 61
- catalogued products
- #4,349
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 17 of 61 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Multigrain Snack Bars; Banana Pudding Flavored Protein Powder; Black Edition Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Retinyl Acetate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
17 of 61 linked records have some flagged component
All 61 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Retinyl Acetate: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,349 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,349
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 61 products, listed in more products than 98.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 61 products listing it (mean slot 27.9). Retinyl Acetate usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Retinyl Acetate
Across the 61 products on this site that list Retinyl Acetate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 6.1x more often with Retinyl Acetate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Retinyl Acetate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 10 | 16.4% | 2.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 5 | 8.2% | 2.1% |
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 Retinyl Acetate
Products Containing Retinyl Acetate
High-volume slice (16 of 61) for products naming Retinyl Acetate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavours”)
High-volume peers for Retinyl Acetate: 61 products, mean screening score 94.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural And Artificial Flavours”, “Basil Leaves”, “Brazils”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Retinyl Acetate evidence
Use the 61-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Retinyl Acetate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Retinyl Acetate — common follow-ups
Does Retinyl Acetate 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 Retinyl Acetate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Retinyl Acetate? ▼
Retinyl Acetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,349 of 247,206), appearing in 61 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Retinyl Acetate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Retinyl Acetate appears in 61 products (#4,349 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Retinyl Acetate). 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.