Sunflower Lecithin
Sunflower Lecithin appears in 7,809 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
Sunflower Lecithin appears in 7,809 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.
- 7,809
- catalogued products
- #146
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,646
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
Sunflower Lecithin: top-decile catalog footprint (#146 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #146
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 7,822 products listing it (mean slot 15.5). Sunflower Lecithin 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.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Lecithin spans 1646 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 0242/0243 Akoma Fair Trade Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips; 049800218017; 100% Acai Fruit Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1646 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7793 of 7803 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 Sunflower Lecithin
Across the 7,809 products on this site that list Sunflower Lecithin, 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 2.3x more often with Sunflower Lecithin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sunflower Lecithin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 483 | 6.2% | 2.7% |
| Monk fruit extract | 420 | 5.4% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 405 | 5.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 286 | 3.7% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 283 | 3.6% | 5.4% |
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 Sunflower Lecithin
Products Containing Sunflower Lecithin
High-volume slice (16 of 7,809) for products naming Sunflower Lecithin:
Sunflower Lecithin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sunflower Lecithin: 7,809 products, mean screening score 94.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Chocolate · Gum Arabic · Soy. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Sunflower Lecithin record
7,809 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sunflower Lecithin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sunflower Lecithin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Sunflower Lecithin next to “Gum Arabic” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sunflower Lecithin — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Lecithin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Lecithin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#146 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Lecithin? ▼
Sunflower Lecithin ranks in the top decile by product count (#146 of 247,206), appearing in 7,809 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Lecithin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Lecithin appears in 7,809 products (#146 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Lecithin). 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.