Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier
Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier appears in 618 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
Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier appears in 618 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.
- 618
- catalogued products
- #914
- usage rank of 247,206
- 129
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#914 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #914
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 619 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 10.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier spans 129 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate; A dark chocolate bar; A dark chocolate bar lovingly mixed with premium chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
129 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 618 of 618 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier
Across the 618 products on this site that list Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier, 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 1.6x more often with Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 21 | 3.4% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 14 | 2.3% | 5.4% |
| Red 3 | 14 | 2.3% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 14 | 2.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 2.1% | 4.5% |
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 Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier
Products Containing Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 618 indexed products containing Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier:
High-volume peers for Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier beside “Cocoa Liquor”
High-volume peers for Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier: 618 products, mean screening score 97/100. Nearest count peers include “Cocoa Liquor”, “Source Of Iron”, “Turmeric Oleoresin”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier record
Start from Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier's 618 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier next to “Source Of Iron” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#914 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier? ▼
Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier ranks in the top decile by product count (#914 of 247,206), appearing in 618 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier appears in 618 products (#914 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier). 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.