Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate
Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate appears in 7 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 Steoroyl Lactylate appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate - usage rank #19,546
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7 products listing it (mean slot 35.6). Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate spans 1 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bill Knapp's shortbread crumb holiday dunkers; Bill knapp's nutty dunker doughnuts; Bill knapp's old fashioned cinnamon sugar dunker doughnuts when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 85.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 7 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 7 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 Steoroyl Lactylate
Products Containing Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate
7 busy labels from the 7 indexed products that list Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate
Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate sits among other busy catalog rows (7 products, mean score 85.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate record
Start from Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- 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.
Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#19,546 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate? ▼
Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Steoroyl Lactylate). 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.