Sodium Stearate
Sodium Stearate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 73 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Stearate appears in 73 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Prior Sanctioned.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
Sodium Stearate: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,864 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Stearate in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 29.2). 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
82.2% 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 Stearate as the trigger. Open records such as 24/7 Lasting Scent Smell Sniffworthy; Caramel iced yellow cake with salted topping & creamy caramel filling cupcakes, salted caramel; carrot cake mini donuts and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 51.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
82.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 67 of 67 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Stearate
Across the 73 products on this site that list Sodium Stearate, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 28x more often with Sodium Stearate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Stearate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 43 | 58.9% | 2.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 27 | 37% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 25 | 34.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 21 | 28.8% | 4.8% |
| BHT | 17 | 23.3% | 1.1% |
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.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, PROPELLANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Sodium Stearate
Products Containing Sodium Stearate
16 busy labels from the 73 indexed products that list Sodium Stearate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Freshness”)
Sodium Stearate sits among other busy catalog rows (73 products, mean score 51.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Retain Freshness · Anti Caking Agent · Chiles. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Sodium Stearate record
Start from Sodium Stearate's 73 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Stearate 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Stearate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
82.2% 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 Stearate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Stearate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Prior Sanctioned". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Stearate? ▼
Sodium Stearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Stearate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Stearate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, masticatory substance, propellant, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Stearate). 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.