Sorbitan Olivate
Sorbitan Olivate appears in 20 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 Olivate appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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.
Sorbitan Olivate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,371 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Sorbitan Olivate in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 14.3). 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sorbitan Olivate spans 9 named brands and is led by the Sunscreen group. Start with 50 Sensitive; AlphaRet Overnight Cream; Baby 2-IN-1 Face & Body Whip Lotion 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.
9 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 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 Sorbitan Olivate
Products Containing Sorbitan Olivate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 20 indexed products containing Sorbitan Olivate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Sorbitan Olivate: 20 listings averaging 99/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sorbitan Olivate page
20 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sorbitan Olivate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sorbitan Olivate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. 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.
Questions readers ask about Sorbitan Olivate
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sorbitan Olivate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sorbitan Olivate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sorbitan Olivate? ▼
Sorbitan Olivate ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Sunscreen. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sorbitan Olivate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sorbitan Olivate appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sorbitan Olivate). 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.