Retinyl Palmitate
Retinyl Palmitate appears in 187 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 Palmitate appears in 187 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.
- 187
- catalogued products
- #2,043
- usage rank of 247,206
- 66
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
51.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Retinyl Palmitate as the trigger. Open records such as A2 Organic Infant Formula; Adult Gummies Calcium 500 Mg With D3 & Zinc; Apple Bits Multigrain Rings Cereal and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
51.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 185 of 185 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.
Retinyl Palmitate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,043 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,043
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 187 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Mean relative depth 69% across 187 parsed labels, slot 21.2 on average. Retinyl Palmitate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Retinyl Palmitate
Across the 187 products on this site that list Retinyl Palmitate, 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 14.4x more often with Retinyl Palmitate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Retinyl Palmitate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 73 | 39% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 63 | 33.7% | 1.8% |
| Carrageenan | 20 | 10.7% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 5.3% | 4.8% |
| Monk fruit extract | 8 | 4.3% | 0.5% |
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 Retinyl Palmitate
Products Containing Retinyl Palmitate
16 busy labels from the 187 indexed products that list Retinyl Palmitate:
Retinyl Palmitate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Retinyl Palmitate: 187 products, mean screening score 83.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Chocolate Flavored Chips”, “Fresh Yeast”, “Star Anise”. 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.
What to do with this Retinyl Palmitate record
Start from Retinyl Palmitate's 187 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Retinyl Palmitate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Retinyl Palmitate with a peer such as “Chocolate Flavored Chips” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Retinyl Palmitate
How should I read safety signals when Retinyl Palmitate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
51.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Retinyl Palmitate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Retinyl Palmitate? ▼
Retinyl Palmitate ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,043 of 247,206), appearing in 187 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Retinyl Palmitate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Retinyl Palmitate appears in 187 products (#2,043 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Retinyl Palmitate). 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.