Sorbitan Tristearate
Sorbitan Tristearate appears in 400 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 Tristearate appears in 400 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.
- 400
- catalogued products
- #1,197
- usage rank of 247,206
- 104
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 197 of 400 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10” Chocolate Cake Filled with Chocolate Mousse; 6 Chocolate Slices; Abbott, Glucerna, Nutrition Bars, Peanut Chocolate Chip, Peanut Chocolate Chip to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sorbitan Tristearate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
197 of 400 linked records have some flagged component
All 400 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Sorbitan Tristearate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,197 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,197
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 400 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Averaged label depth puts Sorbitan Tristearate in the lower half of the list (64% of list length, mean slot 23.2). 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 else is usually in the same product as Sorbitan Tristearate
Across the 400 products on this site that list Sorbitan Tristearate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.1x more often with Sorbitan Tristearate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sorbitan Tristearate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 71 | 17.8% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 66 | 16.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 66 | 16.5% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 54 | 13.5% | 1.4% |
| Blue 1 | 52 | 13% | 4.2% |
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.
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 Tristearate
Products Containing Sorbitan Tristearate
16 busy labels from the 400 indexed products that list Sorbitan Tristearate:
High-volume peers for Sorbitan Tristearate beside “Light Cream”
High-volume peers for Sorbitan Tristearate: 400 products, mean screening score 80.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Light Cream”, “Tea”, “Barley Malt Syrup”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sorbitan Tristearate evidence
Start from Sorbitan Tristearate's 400 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sorbitan Tristearate 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sorbitan Tristearate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Sorbitan Tristearate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sorbitan Tristearate? ▼
Sorbitan Tristearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,197 of 247,206), appearing in 400 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sorbitan Tristearate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sorbitan Tristearate appears in 400 products (#1,197 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sorbitan Tristearate). 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.