Sunflower Lecithins
Sunflower Lecithins appears in 22 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 Lecithins appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Lecithins sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,787 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Sunflower Lecithins in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 15.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sunflower Lecithins spans 14 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; Bohme, Weinbrand Kirschen, Cherry & Brandy Filled Chocolates; Butter cookie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 22 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 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 Lecithins
Products Containing Sunflower Lecithins
16 busy labels from the 22 indexed products that list Sunflower Lecithins:
Sunflower Lecithins vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Sunflower Lecithins sits among other busy catalog rows (22 products, mean score 98.2/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Sunflower Lecithins record
Use the 22-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sunflower Lecithins and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sunflower Lecithins? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sunflower Lecithins, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,787 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sunflower Lecithins? ▼
Sunflower Lecithins ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sunflower Lecithins so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sunflower Lecithins appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sunflower Lecithins). 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.