Skin
Skin appears in 21 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
Skin appears in 21 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.
- 21
- catalogued products
- #9,037
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 27%
- 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.
Skin sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,037 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,037
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 27%
- Averaged label depth puts Skin in the upper half of the list (27% of list length, mean slot 6.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Skin spans 10 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Active Collagen+; Ageless Male MAX; Chicken Gravy Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
10 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 17 of 18 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Skin
Products Containing Skin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 21 indexed products containing Skin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Skin sits among other busy catalog rows (21 products, mean score 99/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Skin page
Use the 21-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Skin and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Skin
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Skin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Skin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Skin? ▼
Skin ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Skin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Skin appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Skin). 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.