Stabilisers
Stabilisers appears in 112 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
Stabilisers appears in 112 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.
- 112
- catalogued products
- #2,903
- usage rank of 247,206
- 37
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 42 of 112 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; 4 White Rolls to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Stabilisers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
42 of 112 linked records have some flagged component
All 111 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Stabilisers: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,903 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,903
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 112 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Mean relative depth 54% across 112 parsed labels, slot 13.7 on average. Stabilisers tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Stabilisers
Across the 112 products on this site that list Stabilisers, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 5x more often with Stabilisers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Stabilisers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 25 | 22.3% | 4.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 8% | 2.1% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 7 | 6.3% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 6 | 5.4% | 2.7% |
| Potassium Iodate | 5 | 4.5% | 0.2% |
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 Stabilisers
Products Containing Stabilisers
16 busy labels from the 112 indexed products that list Stabilisers:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chili Pepper And Other Spices”)
Top-decile company for Stabilisers: 112 listings averaging 95.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chili Pepper And Other Spices; Expeller Pressed Vegetable Oil; Flaxseed Oil.
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 Stabilisers evidence
112 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Stabilisers are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Stabilisers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- 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.
Stabilisers — common follow-ups
Does Stabilisers 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 Stabilisers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Stabilisers? ▼
Stabilisers ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,903 of 247,206), appearing in 112 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Stabilisers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Stabilisers appears in 112 products (#2,903 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Stabilisers). 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.