Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate
Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate appears in 4 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
Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate as the trigger. Open records such as degree; degree; Degree Advanced 72hr Vanilla and Jasmine and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.5/100 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.
50% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 3 of 3 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.
Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate ranks above 88.3% of catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate in the lower half of the list (66% of list length, mean slot 13.5). 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 4 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 Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate
Products Containing Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate
Every indexed product currently listing Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate (4 total):
Count and score peers around flagged Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate
Flag-heavy neighborhood — keep count peers and score peers on separate axes for Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate (4 products).
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 Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate page
Use the 4-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate show up across the catalog? ▼
Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206). Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Starch Octenylsuccinate). 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.