Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters
Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 169 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters appears in 169 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 169
- catalogued products
- #2,172
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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.
Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,172 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,172
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 169 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 169 products listing it (mean slot 16.8). Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters as the trigger. Open records such as Air Heads; Airhead bites; Airhead bites fruit flavored candy ounce packs and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 169 of 169 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
What else is usually in the same product as Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters
Across the 169 products on this site that list Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters, 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. Sucralose shows up about 9.6x more often with Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 44 | 26% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 34 | 20.1% | 4.2% |
| Aspartame | 27 | 16% | 0.9% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 24 | 14.2% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 5 | 22 | 13% | 4.8% |
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.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, TEXTURIZER
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 Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters
Products Containing Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters
High-volume slice (16 of 169) for products naming Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alpha-tocopheryl Acetate”)
Top-decile company for Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters: 169 listings averaging 76.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Alpha-tocopheryl Acetate; Enriched Semolina; Ground Cumin.
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.
Next steps from the Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters page
169 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters next to “Enriched Semolina” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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
How should I read safety signals when Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters? ▼
Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,172 of 247,206), appearing in 169 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, texturizer in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters). 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.