Sorbitan Isostearate
Sorbitan Isostearate 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
Sorbitan Isostearate 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
- 63%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
71.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sorbitan Isostearate as the trigger. Open records such as Baby Mineral Zinc Oxide Sunscreen Lotion; cover girl exhibitionist; dark spot and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 63% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
71.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7 of 7 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.
High-volume listing for Sorbitan Isostearate - 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
- 63%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7 products listing it (mean slot 23.9). Sorbitan Isostearate 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
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 Sorbitan Isostearate
Products Containing Sorbitan Isostearate
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Sorbitan Isostearate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Sorbitan Isostearate: 7 products, mean screening score 82.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Sorbitan Isostearate page
Start from Sorbitan Isostearate's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sorbitan Isostearate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Sorbitan Isostearate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sorbitan Isostearate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
71.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sorbitan Isostearate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sorbitan Isostearate? ▼
Sorbitan Isostearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sorbitan Isostearate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sorbitan Isostearate appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sorbitan Isostearate). 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.