Soy Monoglycerides

Soy Monoglycerides appears in 8 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 Monoglycerides appears in 8 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.

8
catalogued products
#17,814
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
85%
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 Monoglycerides sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#17,814 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#17,814
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
85%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 8 products listing it (mean slot 29.8). Soy Monoglycerides usually falls near the end of the captured 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Soy Monoglycerides spans 3 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Coq10 100 Mg Optimally Absorbed Ubiquinone; Sweet Cornbread; Sweet Cornbread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

3 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 8 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 8 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 Monoglycerides

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Soy Monoglycerides Coq10 100 Mg Optimally Absorbed UbiquinoneSweet CornbreadSweet CornbreadDonutsJalapeno cornbreadLobster & cheese bitesMini cornbread loavesRoasted red pepper cornbread, roasted red pepper
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Soy Monoglycerides sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 91.9/100). 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 Soy Monoglycerides record

Start from Soy Monoglycerides's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Soy Monoglycerides to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Soy Monoglycerides — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Soy Monoglycerides?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Soy Monoglycerides, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Monoglycerides?

Soy Monoglycerides ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Soy Monoglycerides so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Monoglycerides appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy Monoglycerides). 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.